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A long column of refugees walking south along a cracked desert highway at dusk toward a low golden sun, carrying packs and children, a mountain range ahead
Previously World

The Exodus

The year the brain drain became a migration. Not a single decision — a hundred thousand of them, made one engineer at a time, until the country that built the machines couldn't keep the people who understood them.

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The Diseconomy
Previously World

The Diseconomy

A Goldman Sachs managing director puts her name on the report that says the US economic model has lost. The numbers are bad. The third actor in the data is worse.

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The Day the Dollar Died
Previously Alejandra

The Day the Dollar Died

June 15, 2033. Three nations decouple from SWIFT. The dollar's century as global reserve currency ends not with a crash but with a better offer.

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A fluorescent-lit American convenience store at night, a clerk taping a third hand-written price sticker over a gas pump as the digits climb, the till drawer open and stuffed with hundred-dollar bills that nobody outside the country will take
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The Dollar Dies

The reserve currency didn't crash. It got stranded — still legal tender inside the country that printed it, and quietly worthless everywhere else. By the time the Andes signed the paperwork, the dollar had already died in function. June only issued the certificate.

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