“The ingredients are coming together for a US financial crisis”

08/12/2026 Notes in the Margin

“Trying to defer America’s fiscal reckoning by monkeying with debt instruments is the trick used by broken hegemons through the ages. It is a Faustian pact.”

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“The ingredients are coming together for a US financial crisis”