Glossary
The idea that because every institution is entangled, the whole economy would collapse if enough homeowners and banks defaulted.
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too big to fail
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Key Notes
Glossary
Jiang's shorthand for post-deregulation banks so large and consolidated that the state feels compelled to rescue them.
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CDOs packaged subprime mortgages as investments because monthly mortgage payments seemed reliable under too-big-to-fail assumptions.
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Jiang says financial deregulation, especially repeal of Glass-Steagall, consolidated banks into institutions that became too big to fail.
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"Okay? Now the institutions are supposed to take this money and promote more liquidity in the system. But instead what they do is they..."
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"...one was concerned about default because of the idea of too big to fail. Which means that, look, the system is structured so that..."
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"...consolidation of the financial industry. And so these banks became too big to fail. So that's the second big trend. The third big trend..."
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"...bail us out if we all go bankrupt because we're too big to fail and all our friends are in government. Okay? That's their..."
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"...I mean it's a big party scheme and it's all too big to fail so going back to the 2008 financial crisis you can..."
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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