00:00The modern economy does not only tolerate debt, it depends on it.
00:04Growth often depends on spending money we do not yet have.
00:08When too much debt builds up, the world becomes fragile.
00:11One interest rate change can shake markets, one default can trigger panic.
00:16And when the system is in danger, who is rescued first?
00:19Usually not the ordinary people.
00:21Debt is the perfect weapon because it does not look like a weapon.
00:25It arrives as help.
00:27It speaks the language of development.
00:29The old empires ruled through armies.
00:31The new empires rule through balance sheets.
00:34The old chains were made of iron.
00:37The most dangerous prison is the one that convinces you it is freedom.
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