Opinion: How We Kick These Four Addictions Without Crashing the Economy
Taking a break from elections, this week’s charts update our May 2023 analysis, “The Four Addictions.” There we observed America’s growing and increasingly unsustainable dependencies on debt, China, digital technologies, and easy money.
Our central challenge this decade is kicking these four addictions without crashing economies, stifling innovation or provoking wars. Here’s how things look 15 months later.