Financial papers have predicted the collapse of the Russian or Chinese economy every few weeks for 15 years.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Sources support that many economists and analysts repeatedly predicted the collapse of the Russian and Chinese economies, but none of them documents financial papers making such predictions every few weeks for 15 years.
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… This goes for every conflict, and it's so perfect, it's such a one-to-one correlation, that it can't be an accident. So I've come to, especially my favorite, every few weeks, there was one of the financial papers would say, "The Russian or the Chinese economy is going to collapse any day." They've been saying that for 15 years. No one gets in trouble for this. No one's fired. All their predictions are wrong about this kind of thing, and it's because their own economies are on the verge of collapse. …
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Contradicts. Jin states that since the 1990s 'China collapse' theories have resurfaced every five to 10 years, a cadence far slower than the claimed 'every few weeks'.[2]
Supports. Reuters transcript and Moscow Times review describe widespread Western and international forecasts that Russia's economy would collapse after the 2022 invasion, and those forecasts failed.[1][3]
Supports. IISS notes that many confident predictions of Russia's 'collapse' were made, and Pravda reports repeated predictions that the Russian economy would soon buckle; this supports repeated collapse predictions in general.[4][5]
Supports. Econstor and Jin document repeated predictions of a Chinese economic collapse dating back to at least 2001, supporting a long history of such predictions.[2][6]
Context. No source states that financial papers specifically made these predictions, or counts their frequency over 15 years; the predictions cited are mostly from economists, analysts and commentators rather than financial publications.[3][4][7]
Sources
7 sources: 1 fact-checker, 6 not rated
- 1Transcriptreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Jin, Keyu (2023) The fallacy of the "China collapse" and " ...researchonline.lse.ac.uk · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 3Russia’s Economic Doomsayers Were Wrong. So Were the Optimists. - The Moscow Timesthemoscowtimes.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 4The Coming Crisis in Russia’s Political Economyiiss.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5Enough for two more years of war: Russia's economy just won't slip ...pravda.com.ua · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6China's rise, Russia's fall: Medium term perspectiveeconstor.eu · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7Main Menurussiamatters.org · not rated · cited for: context
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