From “The Next Panic,” which appeared in the May 1987 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. Early this year,…
From Cycle Synchronies: The Interrelationships of Physical, Biological, Social, and Economic Cycles, a handbook published by the Foundation for the Study of Cycles in Irvine, California. According to the handbook,…