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Peace, Power & Prosperity — Part 5: The 19th Century and Pax Britannica

The 19th century produced the world's first genuinely global economic order under British hegemony — and demonstrated what happens when that order doesn't extend everywhere. Latin America's post-independence stagnation and the U.S. Civil War's economic cost show the other side of the coin.

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Argentina's Endless Default — A Country That Has Collapsed Nine Times and Survived Every One

Argentina has defaulted on its sovereign debt nine times since independence. It has experienced hyperinflation, currency board collapse, corralito bank freezes, peso devaluations, and IMF programme failures. Yet Argentina's economy persists, its people adapt, and the cycle repeats. This is the full

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