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  "path": "/2026/02/18/632752-america-decline-industrial-erosion/",
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  "textContent": "Seven million jobs lost, manufacturing’s share halved – America’s Dutch disease in numbers, the cost of flying too high. The dollar’s reserve-currency privilege underwrites low-cost US borrowing and persistent deficits while a structurally overvalued currency hollows out the nation’s industrial core, masking deep systemic imbalances beneath a veneer of easy foreign financing. The numbers tell a […]",
  "title": "Prof. Schlevogt’s Compass No. 42: America’s hidden ledger of decline – Industrial erosion quantified"
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