# Top Economist: The Unthinkable Is About to Happen to the World Economy

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Podcast: [Rebel Economics with Professor Steve Keen](https://stenobird.com/podcast/rebel-economics-with-professor-steve-keen-6936193)
Published: 2026-06-09T19:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.stevekeen.com
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Duration seconds: 1177

## Resource

📚 Learn 50+ years of Real Economics in only 7 weeks. Apply here: https://www.stevekeen.com/chinadominance (Apply this week and get my 3-Book Rebel Economist Bundle as a Free Bonus. Plus if you're fully approved by my team, get Ravel© - my proprietary economic visualization software I use in my YouTube videos; to predict the economy, like I did years before the 2008 Financial Crash happened). What happens to the China economy when America's financial system finally breaks? As the US debt crisis deepens and the threat of a US dollar collapse grows, the shockwaves won't stop at American borders they'll reshape the entire global order, starting with China. In this in-depth financial education breakdown, we analyze how a full-scale US economy collapse would trigger cascading consequences across China's export-driven economy, the stock market, and the global financial crisis already forming beneath the surface. De-dollarization is accelerating. Trump tariffs have fractured US China trade relations. Foreign buyers are pulling back from U.S. Treasury bonds. Credit cycles are tightening. And inflation pressures refuse to ease. But here's the question nobody's asking: If America falls, does China rise or fall harder? In this video, we explore: ✅ How a US economy collapse directly impacts China's growth model ✅ The US dollar collapse and what de-dollarization means for the yuan ✅ Why the US debt crisis is a ticking time bomb for global trade ✅ Stock market crash 2026 scenarios and how China is exposed ✅ The role of Trump tariffs and the US China tariff war in accelerating economic fractures ✅ Why AI and tech innovation can't fix structural global financial crisis risks ✅ Bond market stress, sovereign debt instability, and the limits of debt-driven growth ✅ What Xi Jinping's econo…

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