12/28/2023
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/26/world/2023-year-of-the-brink-intl-cmd?cid=ios_app
It could have been immeasurably worse. But holding back from the brink in 2023 has simply deferred vast crises to 2024. The post-COVID world is exhausted, cash-strapped, but ultimately more fraught than for decades.
