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Kategoria: Polityka pieniężna
One key theme of my last two books, Financial Armageddon (published in 2007) and When Giants Fall (published in 2009), was that we could expect to see a dramatic increase in social instability and political upheaval in the years ahead.
Given what has happened over the past 12 months or so, that looks to have been a prescient forecast.
But it really wasn’t rocket science. It was simply a matter of looking back in time and noting the strong historical relationship between economic circumstances and social conditions, especially in regards to the downside.
As it happens, a chart included in Control Risks’ just published Riskmap 2012: Tales of the Unexpected, tells a similar story — one that is not at all encouraging for those who believe the worst is behind us.