The Coming Storm

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Only in its third decade, the 21st Century has already been battered by several economic storms. The new millennium might have opened with the easy optimism of the early 2000s, yet even these years were punctuated by a series of financial crises as well as rapidly rising inequality. The disparity between rich and poor only intensified after the 2007–2008 financial crash, a generational rupture that echoed the Great Depression of the 1930s and which briefly…