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8 timestamped hits 1 source reading 1 extracted note Aliases: current-account-trade-account-divergences, divergence, divergences

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Current-account/trade-account divergence

Gap between trade flows and financing flows that Jiang reads as potential capital leakage.

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The Bank That Made The Game

2026-01-22, day precision · Game Theory #6: The World's Bank

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"So now you have this divergence where, okay, you have the Spanish empire, and because of their wealth, they became, um, lazy, insular, and..."

Reason Becomes A Religion

2025-04-22, day precision · Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason

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"...the, this is the, this is the, this is the major divergence between the French Revolution and the American Revolution. The French Revolution, it..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...so voluntarily, all right? So as you can see, there's tremendous divergence. There's tremendous diversity within the Protestant faith, and it still continues today,..."

Islam As Proto-Modernity

2025-03-11, day precision · Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam

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"...first question is, how did this happen? Why was there this divergence? Second question we're going to look at is, what ended the Islamic..."

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