Top Economist: The Unthinkable Is About to Happen to the World Economy

About this episode

The episode discusses the potential global economic consequences of a US financial collapse, particularly its impact on China.

📚 Learn 50+ years of Real Economics in only 7 weeks. Apply here: https://www.stevekeen.com/chinadominance (Apply this week and get my 3-Book Rebel Economist Bundle as a Free Bonus. Plus if you're fully approved by my team, get Ravel© - my proprietary economic visualization software I use in my YouTube videos; to predict the economy, like I did years before the 2008 Financial Crash happened). What happens to the China economy when America's financial system finally breaks? As the US debt crisis deepens and the threat of a US dollar collapse grows, the shockwaves won't stop at American borders they'll reshape the entire global order, starting with China. In this in-depth financial education breakdown, we analyze how a full-scale US economy collapse would trigger cascading consequences across China's export-driven economy, the stock market, and the global financial crisis already forming beneath the surface. De-dollarization is accelerating. Trump tariffs have fractured US China trade relations. Foreign buyers are pulling back from U.S. Treasury bonds. Credit cycles are tightening. And inflation pressures refuse to ease. But here's the question nobody's asking: If America falls…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Steve Keen

Topics covered

• global economy
• US-China relations
• financial crisis
• de-dollarization
• economic collapse
• inflation

Keywords

• US economy
• China economy
• de-dollarization
• financial crisis
• inflation
• stock market crash
• US debt crisis

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Organizations: China, US, US Treasury, Trump tariffs

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