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.
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.
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.
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.
Enter this node →