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Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap

2026-08-30 · 70 min · episode 12101 · 17 entities

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    g from. His own position leans hard toward innovation: drawing on Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist, he argues that 80,000 years of human progress make "it all ends now" an irrati
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    Feed author/publisher: Impact Theory
  • → discusses Business company
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  • → discusses News Commentary concept
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  • → references Impactpod website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://quince.com/impactpod
  • → references Tombilyeu website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://youtube.com/@TomBilyeu
  • → references Womenofimpact website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://youtube.com/womenofimpact
  • → references @Lisa Bilyeu website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://tiktok.com/@lisa_bilyeu?lang=en

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  • mentioned Impactpod website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://quince.com/impactpod
  • mentioned Tombilyeu website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en
  • mentioned Womenofimpact website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://youtube.com/womenofimpact
  • mentioned @Lisa Bilyeu website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://tiktok.com/@lisa_bilyeu?lang=en
  • references Impactpod website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://quince.com/impactpod
  • references Tombilyeu website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://youtube.com/@TomBilyeu
  • references Womenofimpact website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://youtube.com/womenofimpact
  • references @Lisa Bilyeu website
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    Link in episode "Bessent Breaks the Bond Market, The China Pivot That Could Sink Canada's Economy, Kisin vs Keen | Weekly Recap": https://tiktok.com/@lisa_bilyeu?lang=en

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  • mentioned News Commentary concept
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  • discusses News concept
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  • discusses News Commentary concept
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    Feed category: News Commentary

books 2

  • mentioned Rational Optimist book
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    g from. His own position leans hard toward innovation: drawing on Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist, he argues that 80,000 years of human progress make "it all ends now" an irrati
  • references Rational Optimist book
    0.61 · ×9
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    g from. His own position leans hard toward innovation: drawing on Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist, he argues that 80,000 years of human progress make "it all ends now" an irrati

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  • mentioned Impact Theory person
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    Feed author/publisher: Impact Theory
  • hosted by Impact Theory person
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    Feed author/publisher: Impact Theory

companys 2

  • mentioned Business company
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  • discusses Business company
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Episode description as stored
What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here: Want my help starting a business? Join me here inside Zero To Founder Sign up for my AI Masterclass: AI Masterclass FOLLOW TOM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu WOI EPISODES: FOLLOW LISA: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisabilyeu/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisabilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/womenofimpact Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lisa_bilyeu?lang=en Cash App: Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/v6nymgjl #CashAppPod *Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Cash App Green features, Savings, Direct deposit, Round ups, Overdraft coverage and Discounts provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosure. Quince : Free shipping and 365-day returns at https://quince.com/impactpod Whatnot : Download the Whatnot app today and get free shipping on your first order. Ketone IQ: Visit https://ketone.com/IMPACT for 30% OFF your subscription order Ethos : Get a free quote at https://ethos.com/impact Incogni : Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code IMPACT at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/impact ATT Business : Switch to AT&T Business at https:// business.att.com Pique: 20% off at https://piquelife.com/impact The team dissects the viral Konstantin Kisin vs. Steve Keen debate—both former Impact Theory guests—on the central climate question of our time: is the answer to use less and shrink (de-growth), or to innovate our way forward? The host, who knows both men and calls them smart and well-intentioned, explicitly urges viewers not to pick a side and dismiss the other as stupid, but to find the one factual disagreement worth reasoning from. His own position leans hard toward innovation: drawing on Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist, he argues that 80,000 years of human progress make "it all ends now" an irrational bet, that we've innovated our way out of every prior crisis, and that de-growth—especially any talk of reducing world population—would trigger economic collapse that causes far more suffering than the problem it aims to solve. He respects Steve Keen's economic mind but argues Keen has essentially "given up," wishing we'd listened to engineers 50 years ago rather than charting a path forward now. He reframes the climate fight around tradeoffs the doom narrative ignores: citing Bjørn Lomborg's "it's real but overstated, and the solutions can be worse than the disease" framing, the roughly 140,000-plus annual heat deaths that air conditioning could prevent, and Jordan Peterson's warning about sacrificing today's actual poor for tomorrow's hypothetical poor. The conversation ranges across the East-vs-West Germany innovation contrast, a Peter Diamandis-style geoengineering thought experiment, why "politics is downstream of culture," and the host's more contested claim that climate panic often masks a desire for control and resentment—before ending on a speculative, openly-unsupported musing about the psychology behind who pushes it. A wide-ranging argument for optimism, first-principles thinking, and refusing to let "we're doomed" become the whole story. The team breaks down Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's latest move to tame rising long-term bond rates—and why the bond market is likely to keep testing him. After Bessent doubled buybacks from $2B to $4B per round (which briefly knocked yields down before they rebounded past where they start