Doubt is a Cloaking Device Hiding the Future

There’s a crisis ahead. Avert your gaze, if you dare.

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Dornbusch’s Law:

“The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.”

This well-known quote by a respected economist, which I encountered only recently, forced me to stop and think about the implications. (I was gobsmacked, actually.)

Dornbusch was referrin…