prediction
Jiang frames the current escalation as a possible global recession or depression trajectory, emphasizing thirst and infrastructure stress before headline inflation headlines.
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"Are we heading for a global recession, do you think? I think that we are heading towards a global depression. I'm terrified. People are..."
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"So it's not just oil that's being destroyed. It's something like about 30 % of the world's helium supply. It's something of the 30..."
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"...-month outcome, concrete and falsifiable, would prove your map, map, map, macro thesis of structural new gas decline wrong?"
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"...people tend to behave people like them. Okay. So it's very macro approach to surveillance and that's how China works. My problem is I..."
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"...is that it's much more structural. That if you study. History, macro history, we have seen this pattern before. Whereas an empire declines, it..."
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"Right. So again, I look at macro history. And the reality is that America is addicted to the petrodollar. It's addicted to money. Printing...."
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"...Roman period or the British Empire. I try to have a macro picture of the entirety of human history, stretching from the Ice Age..."
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"...same place. Now, and this is true only because at the macro level, right, you're talking about, like, trillions of people. In the Foundation..."
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"...loved the way that he looked at the world from a macro perspective. So he was not a great writer. But he had a..."
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"can you give us our macro perspective your macro perspective on the year of 2026 and then we'll get into specific events that are..."
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"...saw previously last year so these trends include uh the larger macro economic picture where the world is headed towards economic collapse who consume..."
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"...though it's the end of days. Yes. So that's a larger macro picture. And I don't think things will come to a head in..."
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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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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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
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The title promises Iran war prediction, but the interview's real shape is stranger.
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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