He predicts that after the U.S. dollar loses reserve-currency dominance, global trade would continue through a less convenient basket of currencies that could include dollars, gold, pounds, and Swiss francs.
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U.S. dollar
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Jiang says the dollar-centered Ponzi scheme cannot be escaped before it collapses, and he treats U.S. debt default or a collapse in the dollar system as the likely form that collapse takes.
Jiang calls preference for U.S. dollars over rubles the central dilemma of the Russia-China relationship, because Chinese investors still trust dollar-denominated safety and liquidity more than deeper financial integration with Russia.
Jiang says the U.S. dollar solved a crucial Chinese elite problem by monetizing political power, allowing Chinese elites to convert control over people into dollar wealth that could be stored safely in the United States.
Jiang argues that because America cannot default domestically, it must go abroad and force other countries to keep buying U.S. dollars, and he treats war as the mechanism for that coercion.
Jiang says Putin's strategic opening is to stop foreign countries from buying U.S. dollars, because without that external demand America supposedly collapses under unsustainable interest payments.
The U.S. dollar functions as a global contract system: trade promises are honored because a military enforcement mechanism stands behind the contract.
Religious monuments, Homeric stories, the Bible, the U.S. dollar, and artificial intelligence are presented as successive mechanisms for focusing attention and extracting or storing human consciousness.
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"and by experiencing things in the the world okay for example traveling more or doing things that are beyond your comfort zone all right..."
"of currencies right so people will continue to trade but it will not be as convenient as before okay so and this is a..."
"Russia is very much a closed system. And it's very hard to do business in Russia. If you're in the United States and you..."
"And the entire intention was to create a system for the US dollar. Okay? And this also explains the war in Iran where Iran..."
"Do you understand? Because you can't force them because you cannot default the debt domestically because everyone in America would lose all their money...."
"Okay. Okay. So the basis of the global economy is the U.S. dollar. Okay. So what is the U.S. dollar? The U.S. dollar is..."
"Okay. Because this leads to financialization, which is just risk and speculation. Okay. So all this excess money is being created around the world,..."
"order to extract and store wealth alright so you have maybe religion okay and so think of penance pyramids right because pyramids in Egypt..."
"the soul of humanity for the human consciousness between the US dollar the old world order and artificial intelligence the new world order okay..."
"central banks okay so the Federal Reserve in the United States the Bank of the People's Bank of China in China okay the Bank..."
"financial order okay and the purpose of this global financial sorry this global economy is to have everyone play as much as possible so..."
"uh Britain and Germany fought two great wars and America came in to save Britain in the end and prevent Germany from unifying the..."
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