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He frames money as an institutional illusion in practice and argues that the current account capital dynamic is key to explaining why Chinese savings are treated as a leverage point by global finance.
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Savings
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Jiang says East Asia's export and savings model is fragile because if Western consumers weaken, East Asian economies will struggle and high household savings signal low trust in the future.
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Jiang argues that Canada's problem is absorbing global savings into a Ponzi-like asset system while China's problem is underconsumption driven by insecurity and hoarding.
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"okay so again from my U.S. weeks financial perspective China is the last great opportunity in the world that's why they're coming here. okay..."
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"an illusion so the example is let's just say your depositor and you put a million dollars into a bank okay and the way..."
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"banks have powers to print money when they uh make loans or because i think like if some people deposit their money into the..."
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"they are because of a high savings rate okay so South Korea Japan China they export more than they consume but let's just assume..."
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"they don't they don't spend any money but if people aren't spending any money you can't actually grow the economy and and that's an..."
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"Okay. So the decisions are not usually made. I'm talking like high level decisions are not usually made between government and government. They're usually..."
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"...central bank has a problem of how to absorb more of savings around the world. Okay. So I think that these guys had serious..."
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"The medieval mythos of saving and abduction or saving the princess."
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"...earth, our journey, our purpose is to repair the world by saving the sparks of light. Okay, the sparks of light are fragments of..."
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"So right now the savings, the household savings rate in China is 40%. Okay. So basically trying to save 40 % of their income...."
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"...the span of months it went from we are the heroes saving the world of protecting it from communism and the evils of these..."
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"...China. All right, another major problem in China is the household savings rate, where it's the highest in the world. The highest in the..."
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