Jiang says the US economy is heading toward disaster and a crash that people are refusing to face.
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Crash
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang says institutional investors such as pension funds, BlackRock, and Vanguard are effectively trapped in the current market and can do little beyond hoping the crash does not happen yet.
Jiang compares the stock market, economy, and financial sector to a car spiraling down a mountain while both driver and passenger keep their eyes closed.
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"...towards disaster. There's really no way around it. It's going to crash at some point and everyone's closing their eyes and praying it doesn't..."
"...spiraling down a mountain, 900 miles per hour. It's going to crash at some point and everyone's closing their eyes and praying it doesn't..."
"...clouds run past and it hangs down as if about to crash, so did Antaeus seem to me as I watched him bend over..."
"...it's interesting because like um they might be in a car crash or they might have had heart attack okay and they meet god..."
"...The Navy John Shields said, the Navy understood that Oracle might crash and burn at any time, yet it was exciting to try to..."
"...it. And it makes me nervous and I think it could crash. But who knows? I know people who invested in it early who..."
"...to world war ii was first of all 1929 stock market crash where you know billions of savings were wiped out we might see..."
"...travel because he was a hundred, hundred miles away from the crash site. No, that's because they're not factoring in the parachute portion of..."
"...which caused things like you know the great the stock market crash and the great depression um to a technocracy which is a system..."
"...are going to intentionally sabotage, destroy the American economy, cause a crash in the American economy, and then maybe organize protests, anti -war protests,..."
"...that the Iranians were able to recover I.D. from during the crash site. Okay? And it turns out that this woman happens to specialize..."
"...you're gonna have malfunction which is gonna force these planes to crash into um iran and and and so it's impossible to sustain an..."
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