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James Graham on the lingering and as yet unresolved effect of the 2008 global Financial Crisis (Reuters digital July 17, 2025)
…We’d been promised that this was the end of history and that everything was inevitably going to be a linear advancement towards progress and improvement. … I had no idea the longer, bigger crises and anger that was going to be coming down the line.
A retired economist just stumbling and bumbling along to the end of the road.