"1920s vs 2020s"! Wall Street Godfather, ECB President, and historians engage in a heated debate: "AI, tariffs, and geopolitics" dragging the world towards "1930"?

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2026.01.22 02:19
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"The current 2020s bear an astonishing resemblance to the 1920s a century ago: back then it was the technological explosion of electrification and Ford's assembly line, today it is the rapid advancement of AI; back then it was the rise of dollar hegemony, today it is the pressure on the dollar system." During the heated debates in Davos, financial giants warned that the situation of "technological prosperity + trade protection + geopolitical division" is re-emerging