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— 10 October 2024 —

Chartbook 325: Wrestling with transition thinking. Or on being “interregnumed” and how to resist it. (Hegemony notes 8)

Resilience

As I argued in that note and in earlier comments on Finance-Fiction and the dollar system, a sense of unease and imbalance easily spawns the idea that this must resolve itself in some way. History will deliver that resolution. After a period of tension, the dissonance will resolve itself into new harmony.

Adam Tooze

Read full article by Adam Tooze in Chartbook 325

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