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Continuance of China COVID psyop to prompt more self-inflicted wounds from the West as it bungles the blind fast follow? Cover for opportunistic twisting the knife of inflation? Pretext for some major forthcoming changes to trade settlement? Other?

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Neil Irwin

@Neil_Irwin

· Mar 14

We're currently living in the brief moment between when Finance/Econ Twitter has realized that the new Covid lockdowns in Shenzhen are going to have hugely bad consequences for US inflation, but that has not yet become a widely-reported conventional wisdom.

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China is freaking out, this isn’t about the west.

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All of the above and an actual issue for China considering their pop's lack of immunity

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@RobertJSalvador

Mar 14

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@jespow

I’m seeing more data points for this Great Reset idea. It’s like Govts are creating major macro black swans (Covid, war, supply chain 911) to make plebs more dependent on big govt? See a lot of the moves by the WEF, Gates, establishment the last few years.

elAmerican

@elAmericann

Mar 14

Gov't dependance is very scary...

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Brilliant move and timing is what it is, & I don't buy most of the conspiracy theories. What I don't get is surely they realize this increases Trump '24 odds...So why do it...unless of course you're not worried about Trump? And if that's the case why aren't they?

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Reading all the latest about China building hospitals and lockdowns across major cities (again) keeps making me come back to this thread by

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6529

@punk6529

· Feb 21

"Why is China still pursuing a zero-COVID policy?" is something that has troubled me almost daily the last year. Western discourse seems mostly uninterested in the topic, but it seems worth digging into the logic. It's the largest contrarian bet in the world the last 18 months

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20 years of US War Inflation + 2 years of Covid Lockdown inflation + __?__ years of Ukraine/Russia- Euro War inflation = Great Reset cricket protein for the serfs #Bitcoin fixes this.

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D all of the above

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I think Irwin's tweet might be over egging things, but we'll be able to confirm the effect on air cargo prices from Shanghai (biggest mainland ac traffic) and China en masse next Monday

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data tells the tale in these macro inflationary times, not conjecture