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He says states can engineer a financial crisis and then use draft structures to force work and teach practical skills, with military training functioning as a more useful education system than ordinary schools.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...fact, the economy. So what you do is you engineer a financial crisis like the Great Depression, so that you're forced to work because..."
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The standard economics explanation says bubbles pop because collective optimism becomes delusion, like gravity pulling down what flew too high.
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Jiang argues another explanation exists: people behind the scenes have the power to make economies rise and fall.
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Jiang frames the 2008 crisis as a rigged Ivy League and Wall Street system that Obama promised to change but ultimately protected through elite economic appointments.
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He says elite failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, the 2008 financial crisis, and COVID policy have destroyed trust in government, media, science, the military, and other institutions.
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Jiang says China could not truly liberalize its capital account because money would flee to the United States, the renminbi would crash, and Wall Street would impose predatory finance on China.
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He identifies two major U.S. bubbles: a roughly two-trillion-dollar private credit bubble and an AI bubble in which leading companies control AI without making money.
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Jiang argues many Obama-to-Trump voters were not simply racist but felt betrayed by Obama after the Wall Street bailout and losses among ordinary Americans, including Black homeowners.
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"...fact, the economy. So what you do is you engineer a financial crisis like the Great Depression, so that you're forced to work because..."
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"And then you have a national draft to teach you skills that you will need in order to contribute more effectively to the economy...."
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"you just go back and look at the year 2015, you look at magazine, like, like, you know, consumer PC, Huawei laptops were the..."
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"right so you really want to understand this war what you need to appreciate is that there is already a civil war going on..."
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"any money they 're all bubbles okay now who ever the elite is is able to control and direct government policy right so basically..."
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"All right, so just keep this in mind, guys. All right, so let's look at, very quickly, the main explanation for why booms and..."
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"Lengthy, uninterrupted booms, like the one in the 1920s, produce a collective delusion. Optimism becomes a drug or a religion or some combination of..."
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"Okay, so again, this is a science book. It's a set explanation for why there's a bubble burst, because it's delusional, and then it's..."
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"I felt that Trump won because a lot of American people felt that they were betrayed by Obama. I mean, remember, you have this..."
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"...was involved with Libya. He was involved with the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. So this guy was clued in on all these geopolitical events...."
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"They're both Yale Skull and Bones. Okay? So it's a rigged game. Barack Obama, okay? Barack Obama, Columbia, went to Harvard Law School, but..."
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"Well, he did do something about it. All right? So his economic team, he appointed quite a few individuals. These are the two most..."
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