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Jiang says the post-1970s neoliberal turn ended a social order in which a single factory wage could support a family and replaced it with concentrated wealth and speculative finance.
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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"...into the developed world to create the speculative financial products like derivatives."
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"So it went all wrong with the Reagan Revolution and the rise of neoliberalism and that's the root of all the issues that we..."
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"...look, energy is the master resource. Everything that we have is derivative of energy. And so when you see the price of oil go..."
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"...absorb all this foreign capital, started to invent all these risky derivatives, such as the CDOs, collateral debt obligations. And this, of course, led..."
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"...and developing these risky financial assets for people to gamble with, derivatives, right? And that ultimately led to the subprime crisis. Yeah. And the..."
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"...it's um cryptocurrency scams or gambling on polymarket or engaging in derivatives um creating derivatives um creating ai um you know"
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"...in the main economy was focused on financialization creating like these derivatives creating these um gambling mechanisms for uh for the world and that..."
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"...speculation, that led to gambling, that led to risky assets and derivatives. And ultimately, this system imploded in the 2008 Great Financial Crisis."
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"...is the greatest thinkers, greatest intellectuals of Greek civilization. They're all derivative of Homer. Okay? They're all operating within Homer's universe and working off..."
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"...from the bank of japan at zero percent and it creates derivatives to"
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"...know, it's just games, which means that essentially finance are using derivatives, media weaponization, index passive flows, and money printing to prop up the..."
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"...Elon, you do this, and if you don't, we'll send the derivative complex and the hedge fund complex to crash your price."
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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