Chapter 63 The Financial Crisis Is a Delusion
The United States is the hegemon, the whole world is relieved, as long as the pressure relief valve is smooth, it will be fine, and any financial crisis is fake.
Its decline is slow, and the transfer of industry hurts other countries, but it is not a transfer, it is the hegemon of the world, and capital grabs profits all over the world, and wherever it is transferred, it is its capital territory.
It will only be like Spain, and the influx of American silver continues to reduce the efficiency of the whole society, the monopoly deepens, the class solidifies, and the service industry continues to expand and gradually weaken.
Unless it loses its hegemony, or loses its Protestant ethic, and no longer believes in virgin children, then it has no bones, and it is a matter of free fall, a crisis for the war.
Because the United States will eventually become a big dumbbell, in addition to the military industrial complex of the military industry is a huge service industry, all its high technology is transferred by the military industry, and then use the world hegemony to enlarge the market, communications, semiconductors, IT, electric cars, aircraft, the Internet, etc. are all released by the military-industrial complex.
IT is not actually high-tech, Apple does not have any core technology, but the IT industry will instinctively engage in a bunch of patent barriers, patents are not necessarily high-tech, the Internet is a service industry, the high-tech that is fried, the real high-tech is the military-industrial complex.
South Korea, an industrial country, can't even make a rocket technology, and the military-industrial complex releases a small technology, which is amplified by hegemony and is a big industry, and no matter how high it is, it is the country's top comprehensive laboratory and various special research institutes, and the top is basic science.
The research of the microcosm of basic science will become the private Intel chip technology, gene technology products, nanorobots, atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs for the military industry, aerospace, biochemical bacteriological gene technology, quantum technology, particle technology, anti-space technology, deep-sea and outer space mining, etc.
The deformed structure of this big dumbbell, as soon as it loses its hegemony, it is a big crisis at the architectural level that cannot be changed.
The hegemony of third-rate technology can formulate first-class standards, and the super-first-class technology of other countries should not participate in third-rate standards.
The hegemon can unleash the technology of the military-industrial complex at will, transforming it into a big industry. However, the military industry of other countries, let alone the release of technology, is difficult to transform into civilian enterprises, let alone industries.
Hegemony can amplify obsolete products into popular products, sell third-rate products at first-class prices, and the market is all over the world. Even if the first-class products of other countries are sold at third-rate prices, the market is mostly limited to their own countries.
Once the hegemony is lost, it will be a super storm to roll back.
No one dares to touch its hegemony, it will definitely fight a world war.
If others don't touch it, it will go out to fight if it touches itself, and the military-industrial complex, let alone no war, will shrink without an external enemy.
The real enemy of the military-industrial complex is not outside, the enemy is on Capitol Hill.
The real crisis is not the financial crisis, the financial crisis is actually an illusion, it has little to do with the general public, almost nothing to do with it, if you don't look at the media, the feeling is much lower than the breeze on your face, the financial crisis is transmitted to the general public, the impact is minimal, and inflation is felt more obviously.
The financial crisis is a kind of popularity, everyone talks about it, but it is all the appearance, very little understanding at the structure level, the professor who teaches finance all his life does not understand the operation of finance, the financial textbook is similar to the four books and the five classics, this set of inheritance is the apprenticeship system and the godfather and godson, the hermits who dare not leave Switzerland and the promoters and senior partners of the investment bank on Wall Street are this set of inheritance, and the players in the futures and stock market feel the financial crisis every day.
As soon as the door of a casino is closed, a group of gamblers are elated and sad, but the chips have never left the casino, how can there be a crisis for the casino? It's a game, and there are spontaneous financial crises that close the door, and there are financial crises that are deliberately triggered. Open the door, gamble high, win a chip and go, this is called a predatory financial crisis.
There are three gamblers, ten dollars, and each other only wins and loses, and the table is still ten dollars. The number of gamblers is large, one trillion, and then there is a financial crisis, and there is still one trillion on the table.
Finance is a kind of mortgage bill buying and selling, and the mortgage is industry. The collateral remains unchanged, the notes remain unchanged, and the change is the over-the-counter book float of the bills, which is realized according to the expected growth of the industry, resulting in profit and loss, which is a double float. At the social level, it is a double amplification, amplifying the speed of industrial expansion and demand, amplifying competition, it does not affect the industrial efficiency and the efficiency of the whole society, the growth of the mortgaged industry should still grow, it should go bankrupt, and the rate of increase or decrease of the total wealth of the society remains unchanged.
Once the collateral is not industrial, it is not modern finance, it is usury, and France is called the empire of usury. Reagan and Thatcher withdrew industry, and Britain and the United States from then on, financial power was the appearance, in fact, towards the usury empire.
Just these two sheep herders dare to withdraw, bet on hegemony, with hegemony it's fine, the two brothers are tied up and robbed, not because Britain is the American pirate father to admit their relatives, that is the financial tie-up, without hegemony, Britain's marine insurance and reinsurance have to collapse, and the financial street is running rats. Whoever wants to believe in the American theory of the division of labor in the world and also turn industry around, it will be even better.
There can be countless works on the division of labor in the world, but the structure is very simple, a gun, bullets, springs, firing pins, gunpowder division of labor, without the consent of the world overlord, no one wants to assemble the gun by themselves, let alone fire, jamming you a firing pin, even if you have all the other parts, you still can't make a sound.
The territory of the hegemon is the whole world, and the firing pins are produced in the Sahara, and they can be assembled in the middle of a world war. Once the world's large-scale supporting system is completed, even if there is only one military-industrial complex, its hegemony will not move at all, and no country can threaten it.
It's good to have a package that is not interested in hegemony, and it's a good thing to develop yourself by exploiting your strengths and avoiding your weaknesses. The creation of a regional customs union is a potential threat, the threat level is very low, and it's okay.
If the hegemon's eye is not hot, it will create a unified market, blue alert, unified settlement, yellow alert, unified security, orange alert, unified military industry, red alert.
The West has two sets of strategic studies, one is the Napoleonic system and the other is the Anglo-American system, the latter is emotionless, intimate and submissive is meaningless, it will look at your specific deployment, which cannot be concealed. What you say is useless, it will constantly test your boundaries of behavior and develop a strategic outline of action with its own judgment.
As long as the two joint characteristics of security and military industry arise in a closed environment, this is definitely a conspiracy to rebel, and the Anglo-American mind looks at this.
Earlier, only the Soviet Union had a military industry and security. The EU Coal and Iron Union is also like this all the way, and it is not dead set on hegemony, who is it if it is not messy?
As for the hegemony of the dollar and the non-hegemony of the bubble. The dollar is the appearance, and who dares to deny that this is money when the hegemon takes a white slip? It says that the white strip is invalid, then it is invalid. Otherwise, what can you do, blood and tears accusation, or draw a knife to the overlord?
The conditions for becoming a world hegemon have never included currency.
The conditions for becoming a great power never include currency.
The condition for becoming a state has never included currency.
The condition for becoming a tribe never included currency.
How much currency there is, it doesn't matter if you're strong or not, it doesn't matter if you're strong, Maya has more gold, there's more gold in the Mexican Valley, Japan has Iwami Ginzan, South Africa has Rand gold mines, and this is still the universal recognition of gold by human beings.
For ancient China, cloth was currency, grain was currency, and for the natives of Africa and North America, glass balls were currency and gold.
Even if there were mountains and valleys full of glass balls and gold, where would it work?
In the era of precious metals as currency, currency has nothing to do with whether it is strong or not, and it has nothing to do with whether it is rich or not. The essence of gold and antiques are the same, recognize it, do not recognize it is metal and bottles and cans, it is not as good as the ancient house and field to feel that you are rich, others also feel that you are rich, strong or not, rich or not is a feeling of internal and external comparison.
Money is a tool of exchange, a means of regulation, a way of domination, because cognition causes people to produce physiological and emotional fluctuations in the natural substance, after the industrial stage, it gradually strips away the material characteristics, is no longer a general equivalent, and slowly becomes a symbol, a totem.
In later generations, a bunch of villain books and public opinion added fuel to the flames, mythologizing the currency, and mentioning this is inseparable from any conspiracy such as Jews, Freemasonry, and the Federal Reserve, and then various stories of the dollar, which make the appearance bigger and bigger.
The main reason is that people get drunk as soon as they mention money, that is, the vast majority of people get drunk, so that a very small number of people scrap the precious metals, take down the collateral, gradually strip the currency of the characteristics of the currency, and play the game of monetary faith.
Because the essence of money is faith, precious metals are too limited, there are too few beliefs, they are not easy to manipulate, and it is not easy to expand beliefs, and these people have also succeeded, but people want to be bishops, preach, control faith, and shepherd sheep for God, and they really don't take the currency itself seriously, not to earn this.
Money is desire, and if you exchange it for what you want, how much desire is enough? When it's not enough, I have a strong desire to want it, I don't hesitate to kill people and set fires, and I don't feel it anymore when I have enough, so I start thinking about what this thing is?
To say that more money is a number is an imagination, for the rich money is a kind of control power, it can manipulate people's hearts, for the country, it can regulate society.
In essence, it is a common value perception of human beings.
Ancient Chinese emperors who loved money were basically faint monarchs, he didn't understand what this thing was, look at how the male lords of the founding of the country looked at money, they didn't take it seriously at all, and most of the male lords didn't encourage the creation of money at all.
Because the essence of money is faith, it is desire, and it is a tool for the state to regulate, and no matter how much it has, it will not be able to become rich and strong.
Happiness is a feeling of comparison, the essence has nothing to do with money, money is always just a component of interests, there are pros and cons, and it must be balanced.
Britain and the United States did not rely on it to become the hegemon, and then the dollar was even more mythologized, that is the appearance.
Money is nothing more than a subject matter for settlement, and it is almost meaningless.