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How Countries Go Broke

10 min read 13 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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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