
How Countries Go Broke
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What’s it about?
A deep, cyclical analysis of how nations collapse under debt, revealing the predictable pattern of bubbles, crises, and power shifts that toppled empires from Rome to the US.
You’ll learn
- The archetypal long-term debt cycle
- Four ways to deleverage a nation
- The psychology of boom and bust
- How internal crisis meets external rivalry