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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the reality is that it's actually stupid to be the world reserve currency. It's silly to be the world leader because now you're just..."
Jiang treats reserve-currency status not as prestige but as a burdensome hegemonic position that forces a state to spend resources defending the world order.
Jiang argues that becoming the world reserve currency or world leader is undesirable because the hegemon must spend its resources defending that position against everyone else.
"...the reality is that it's actually stupid to be the world reserve currency. It's silly to be the world leader because now you're just..."
"...is a good thing, that the United States has the world reserve currency. In fact, most Americans, if you explain the system to them,..."
"So yeah, we don't want to be the world reserve currency. The problem though is that they're addicted to it because it's such easy..."
"...Trump has said this many times. Because America is the world reserve currency, because America is responsible for protecting the sea lanes, then America..."
"...America was a hegemon before the US dollar was a world reserve currency. Uh, but now what we want to do is open a..."
PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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