{"title": "Money Tsunami and Freedoms | Tuomas Malinen | Negotiator 104", "titleOriginal": "Rahatsunami ja vapaudet | Tuomas Malinen | Neuvottelija 104", "episodeNumber": "104", "guest": "Tuomas Malinen", "publishedAt": "2021-10-23", "duration": "36:24", "durationIso": "PT36M24S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwJAUGJy7NY", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/120-rahatsunami-ja-vapaudet-tuomas-malinen-neuvottelija-104", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "full", "topics": ["finnish_economy_policy", "free_speech_society"], "description": "The GnS Economics chief executive Tuomas Malinen and the host work through three levers whose combination they consider dangerous: growth in the money supply, production bottlenecks, and state control over individual behaviour — the third added to the frame by the host. On inflation Malinen sets out a mechanism the indicators failed to see: while the service sector was shut its contribution to the consumer price index was zero or negative, at the same time as goods ordered with stimulus cheques were congesting freight markets and freight costs rose five- or tenfold. He names two historical conditions for hyperinflation — plenty of central-bank-financed money and constrained production. The Federal Reserve's balance sheet grew, as he recalls it, from about four to eight trillion dollars in two years, and in his view central banks are now trapped between inflation and markets that could not take rate rises. The second half covers China's corporate social credit system, Italy's covid pass as a condition of work and disputes between US states and Washington; the host, double-vaccinated himself, says the mechanism of sorting citizens with an app worries him. It closes on what would be worth owning, with Malinen calling crypto a risk and almost every asset a bubble.", "chapters": [{"t": "00:00", "title": "You cannot stop and restart a world economy", "seconds": 0}, {"t": "01:38", "title": "Handelsbanken withdraws from Finland: what that signals", "seconds": 98}, {"t": "03:56", "title": "US CPI at 5.4 per cent and the turn in logistics", "seconds": 236}, {"t": "06:12", "title": "Freight costs rose five- or tenfold", "seconds": 372}, {"t": "08:05", "title": "Covid woke people up to following the economy", "seconds": 485}, {"t": "10:15", "title": "The two conditions for hyperinflation", "seconds": 615}, {"t": "12:41", "title": "Why central banks are trapped", "seconds": 761}, {"t": "14:10", "title": "China's corporate social credit system", "seconds": 850}, {"t": "16:21", "title": "The Hong Kong course that was not held", "seconds": 981}, {"t": "18:04", "title": "The narrow corridor: civil society against state power", "seconds": 1084}, {"t": "19:41", "title": "States, the constitution and Biden's rhetoric", "seconds": 1181}, {"t": "21:35", "title": "Tesla moved from California to Texas", "seconds": 1295}, {"t": "23:07", "title": "Texas banned vaccine mandates", "seconds": 1387}, {"t": "25:26", "title": "What would be worth owning in such a world", "seconds": 1526}, {"t": "27:34", "title": "Cash, an owned home and the legal framework", "seconds": 1654}, {"t": "29:32", "title": "The Fed's balance sheet from four to eight trillion", "seconds": 1772}, {"t": "31:38", "title": "Totalitarianism has historically come from the left too", "seconds": 1898}, {"t": "33:19", "title": "China removed the miners and the property rights", "seconds": 1999}, {"t": "35:40", "title": "The pattern of the recovery package debate", "seconds": 2140}, {"t": "36:11", "title": "Closing words", "seconds": 2171}], "sourceTranscriptType": "macwhisper_srt", "subtitleMethod": "none", "provenance": "Owner page assembled from YouTube metadata, the neuvottelija.fi episode record and a MacWhisper transcription of the Finnish audio, upgraded on 18 October 2026. The chapter marks are the publisher's own, translated one for one, and every mark was checked against the start of a transcript cue. No transcript is published here: the channel has no English caption track for this episode. The guest runs a consultancy that sells macroeconomic risk analysis, and the forecasts here are his own and contested; the hyperinflation scenario did not occur, and the page says so rather than leaving the forecast unmarked. The passages on the covid pass and on state control concern a live and disputed policy question with no one holding the opposing view present, and the host largely shares the guest's concern. Malinen's claims about US court cases and the president's rhetoric are his own and have not been checked. 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