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Because money can be created out of thin air, the system must also destroy money through crashes or wars in order to maintain scarcity and keep people working.
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Recession
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...two ways. Okay? The first is financial collapse basically basically a recession or depression. The point of this is just to remove money from..."
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Jiang says bureaucratic gaslighting occurs when the government refuses to acknowledge recession or decline and tells people their perception of hardship is wrong.
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He says cash-strapped American state universities are aggressively recruiting Chinese students because recession-era budget cuts make full-fee international students financially attractive.
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"...two ways. Okay? The first is financial collapse basically basically a recession or depression. The point of this is just to remove money from..."
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"Okay? It's wealth destruction because you printed too much money. So you need you need to destroy this money. Second way of course is..."
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"...lives suck. People know that, basically, the economy is in a recession. That's what the facts say. And what does the government do? Well,..."
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"...our higher school system, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, California. Because of the recession right now in America, the state legislatures have cut the budget for..."
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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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"...Well, one of my guests today is warning of everything from recession to famine. Joining me to debate is the economics professor and commentator..."
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"...a massive backlash to all this in terms of a potential recession, do you think? Yes, I do. And I'm just smiling because I..."
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"...off the spigots, they could really throw the American economy into recession and causing global recession. And the fact that OPEC is falling apart..."
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"...myself. Professor Zhang, just finally, are we heading for a global recession do you think? I think that we are heading towards a global..."
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"...know your predictions about how we are heading towards a global recession i don't think these warnings are being heeded by individuals people just..."
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"...people and told them, oh, no, we're not really in a recession, even though everyone knew they were in a recession. When Putin invaded..."
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"...if that happens? How do we see it? We'll have global recession. If there's a cessation of war and yet Iran. Okay. So this..."
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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 treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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This lecture turns a current conflict into a strategic exercise: the war is too short to be explained as U.S.
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Western decline looks like immigration crisis, unaffordable housing, assisted death, fake prosperity, debt, surveillance, and war.
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The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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