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The Changing World Order

Takeaways

It appears that most things evolve upward (improve over time) with cycles around them, like an upward-pointing corkscrew.

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For example, over time our living standards rise because we learn more, which leads to higher productivity, but we have ups and downs in the economy because we have debt cycles that drive actual economic activity up and down around that uptrend.

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Goes on to introduce the concepts and topics for future chapters. Rather than reword those summaries, I'll address each topic in separate, future notes.