The Boomers see the ruin of their dreams
We have so much power, knowledge, and ideology. We lack only perspective on our situation. But that is something we can gain from the past – such as seen here.
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Our futures seen in snippets of the past
An unfortunate side-effect of historical analysis — in which one leaps across centuries by turning a page — is that we can forget how quickly regime change occurs. The pressure builds for generations, the cracks slowly spreading and deepening almost invisibly … but the final steps can occur with astonishing speed. Recent history provides vivid …
A giant breaks his chains and again walks the earth: inflation
Inflation can reshape a nation, searing a memory into its collective consciousness that can take generations to fade. Once embedded in an economy, the government’s efforts to root out inflation can cause a severe recession. Inflation swept across the world in the 1970’s, contained only with great effort. Now it again appears, with results impossible …
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