{"title": "The Great Reset 2.0 | Tuomas Malinen | Negotiator 114", "titleOriginal": "The Great Reset 2.0 | Tuomas Malinen | Neuvottelija 114", "episodeNumber": "114", "guest": "Tuomas Malinen", "publishedAt": "2021-12-23", "duration": "39:29", "durationIso": "PT39M29S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Kx_zQEV1M", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/140-the-great-reset-20-tuomas-malinen-neuvottelija-114", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "full", "topics": ["free_speech_society", "geopolitics"], "description": "A sequel to the previous year's Great Reset episode, watched more than a hundred and twenty thousand times, in which Tuomas Malinen goes back over which of his forecasts came true. The frame is the same: Acemoglu and Robinson's narrow corridor, in which democracy emerges from a balance between a despotic state and civil society, and Malinen's assessment is that 2021 slipped towards the state. He names the recovery fund debate as a sign of a turn: a long-serving MP told him he had never seen such a flood of citizen feedback. The carrying argument is constitutional rather than medical — if a level can be placed above the constitution by decree, on which the population is then sorted, Malinen's view is that it will certainly be used again in another context. The host says openly that omicron changed his own position two weeks earlier, but disputes that vaccination is purely political, and on the economy he disagrees that central banks cannot raise rates; Malinen's answer is that the Fed's weak point is leveraged financial markets and the euro area's is its government bond market.", "chapters": [{"t": "00:00", "title": "A sorting level placed above the constitution", "seconds": 0}, {"t": "01:41", "title": "Was 2021 a year of fighting for freedoms", "seconds": 101}, {"t": "03:21", "title": "The recovery fund passed, but it was close", "seconds": 201}, {"t": "04:58", "title": "Why the debate mattered at all", "seconds": 298}, {"t": "06:21", "title": "Where a good civil society comes from", "seconds": 381}, {"t": "08:13", "title": "The state's role through central banks and investment", "seconds": 493}, {"t": "10:48", "title": "Is the state any good at making investments", "seconds": 648}, {"t": "12:16", "title": "Why vagueness in measures is dangerous", "seconds": 736}, {"t": "14:07", "title": "The Spanish flu and its waves a century ago", "seconds": 847}, {"t": "16:33", "title": "South Korea and India as comparisons", "seconds": 993}, {"t": "17:56", "title": "Miettinen's dissenting view and the limits of the pass debate", "seconds": 1076}, {"t": "19:36", "title": "Magna Carta and the purpose of a constitution", "seconds": 1176}, {"t": "22:13", "title": "Concentration of power in the Great Reset analysis", "seconds": 1333}, {"t": "23:35", "title": "The bankers did not know about the project", "seconds": 1415}, {"t": "25:07", "title": "Gosbankisation and the shift of the financial system", "seconds": 1507}, {"t": "27:01", "title": "Low rates and high inflation as a gift in loan form", "seconds": 1621}, {"t": "29:14", "title": "Why unstable inflation is unsustainable", "seconds": 1754}, {"t": "30:46", "title": "The euro area as a house of cards", "seconds": 1846}, {"t": "32:38", "title": "Bretton Woods II and the IMF's position", "seconds": 1958}, {"t": "34:30", "title": "Free speech, woke ideology and civil disobedience", "seconds": 2070}, {"t": "36:47", "title": "Smokescreen operations as attention management", "seconds": 2207}, {"t": "38:20", "title": "Exclusion from mainstream media as a badge of honour", "seconds": 2300}, {"t": "39:19", "title": "Closing words", "seconds": 2359}], "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 verified against the start of a transcript cue. No transcript is published here: the channel has no English caption track for this episode. This is a contested episode and the page does not smooth that over: 'the Great Reset' is a term with a substantial conspiratorial literature attached to it, the claims about constitutional rights, pandemic measures and central banks are the guest's own and are disputed, and no one holding the opposing view is present. The host states his own disagreement in the episode. Recorded 23 December 2021.", "coreTheses": ["The argument is about constitutional precedent rather than about any health measure: in Malinen's words, a sorting level placed above the constitution 'will quite certainly be used again in some other context'.", "Returning to score last year's forecasts is the episode's most defensible move, and Malinen's own scorecard is mixed — the recovery fund passed, central bank digital money and Bretton Woods II did not advance as he expected.", "The host disagrees with the guest on air twice — on whether vaccination is purely political and on whether central banks can raise rates — and says when he changed his own mind; that is what keeps this from being a platform.", "Malinen's rate argument is an asymmetry: rising rates threaten leveraged financial markets in the United States but government bond markets in the euro area, which is why he expects the euro area to be the one that cannot withstand them."], "slug": "ep114-the-great-reset-2-0-tuomas-malinen", "guestsCanonical": ["Tuomas Malinen"], "guestPages": ["https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/tuomas-malinen/"], "page": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep114-the-great-reset-2-0-tuomas-malinen/", "markdown": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep114-the-great-reset-2-0-tuomas-malinen/index.md", "captions": null, "transcript": null, "videoId": "U9Kx_zQEV1M", "dbId": null, "qaCoveragePct": 0.0, "qaSemanticVerdict": "transcript_timecoded", "aiArticleEn": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep114-the-great-reset-2-0-tuomas-malinen/", "aiArticleFi": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep114-the-great-reset-2-0-tuomas-malinen/"}