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12 timestamped hits 3 source readings 3 extracted notes Aliases: bank

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Banks

Protestant asceticism restricts consumption while freeing acquisition, so unspent surplus wealth moves into banks and imperial state power.

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Retrospective claim about roughly the two decades before 2025-08-22.

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He cites Chinese banks' infrastructure lending over the prior twenty years as evidence that banks create money out of nothing to finance real projects.

roughly 2005-2025 as described on 2025-08-21

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Jiang presents the rise of major Chinese banks over the previous 20 years as evidence that banks create money to finance infrastructure rather than merely store preexisting wealth.

Lecture claim dated 2025-03-27.

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Protestant asceticism restricts consumption while freeing acquisition, so unspent surplus wealth moves into banks and imperial state power.

Timestamped Evidence

Power Is Alchemy

2025-08-22, day precision · Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed)

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"Because over the past 20 years, Chinese banks, like the Bank of China, the Bank of Industry and Commerce, the Agricultural Bank of China,..."

Power Is Alchemy

2025-08-21, day precision · Secret History #1: How Power Works

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"...how do we know? Because over the past 20 years, Chinese banks, like the Bank of China, the Bank of Industry and Commerce, the..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...of this money. Where's this money going? It's going to the bank. And who's using this money in the bank? The government is. And..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"They had access to all this surplus wealth that Protestants weren't spending. On the other hand, it had the psychological effect of freeing the..."

"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!"

2026-05-05, day precision · \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties

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"...profession. Economists, weirdly enough, in their mathematical models, do not include banks or debt or money. And they treat money as if it's a..."

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