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Life Is About to Get Even More Expensive. This is What You Can Do Right Now
Most people are not ready for what’s coming.
We were getting there. The year of falling interest rates. And fixing systems. Supply chains were getting back to “normal.” The post-pandemic crisis was getting better. People were getting on with things. But no. We are still stuck. Power wars are still a thing. Here we are again, watching the price of everything tick upward while powerful politicians point fingers. Economists update their forecasts every day. But none of it pays your bills. We never learn from history. History never repeats itself.
Humans do.
Philosophers have spoken on this for centuries. “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history,” Aldous Huxley said. He said that in 1959. We’ve had sixty-odd years to prove him wrong. We haven’t managed it. Is this how politics and capitalism work? Every few years, things go south. At our expense.
How did we get here?
Hemingway described bankruptcy the same way global economic crisis happens: “gradually, then suddenly.”
The gradual part has been building for years. Geopolitical decoupling between the US and China. Europe’s energy dependence on…
