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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
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How can I apply this idea: Every empire studied moves through the same archetypal arc, rise, top, decline, new order, and that arc can be tracked across eight measurable determinants of power rather than judged by feel?
How can I apply this idea: Money itself cycles through three types over history, and reserve-currency status has already changed hands twice, Dutch guilder to British pound to US dollar, each time alongside a currency crisis, not a quiet handoff?
How can I apply this idea: Widespread economic distress, not any single bad indicator, is what predicts internal breakdown, and the same governments that fight external wars also seize control of prices, assets, and central banks at home while they do it?