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…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

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…declining into a recession is quite different from the pattern during a recovery. I pointed out half a year ago that if we were to descend into a “double dip,”…