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A characterization of currency as an enforceable set of obligations/credit rather than physical commodity value.
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money as promise
A characterization of currency as an enforceable set of obligations/credit rather than physical commodity value.
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"...money as if it's a commodity, when money is fundamentally a promise of a bank to you to honor your liabilities to them. That's..."
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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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