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It’s the parallel economy, stupid!

5 November 2022

2:14 PM

5 November 2022

2:14 PM

There’s a lot of rumbling about American polarization these days. Sometimes it takes the form of people advocating for a national divorce or dire warnings of a forthcoming civil war.

A national divorce seems impractical and America is too fat for a civil war. Better evidence that the country is already fracturing is the talk of the “parallel economy.”

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