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Crashed

9 min read 12 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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What’s it about?

A sweeping history of the 2008 financial crash as a transatlantic catastrophe that shattered the global order, birthing populism, austerity, and a fractured world still reeling from the wreckage.

You’ll learn

  • The crash was a systemic crisis of the North Atlantic economy
  • The Eurozone crisis was a direct aftershock of 2008
  • Austerity was a political project, not economic necessity
  • The crash fueled populism and geopolitical instability