Structural analysis at the intersection of linguistics, game theory, and markets.
Feb 7 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
In 1989, a researcher at Stanford published a book called “The Coming Soviet Crash.”
Two years later, the Soviet Union collapsed.
Her name was Judy Shelton. And she’s been right about almost everything since.
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Shelton didn’t predict the Soviet collapse from a newsroom or a Senate office.
She went through the Kremlin’s own budget data and proved what nobody wanted to see: the empire was bankrupt. Rampant inflation, massive deficits, all hidden behind Marxist accounting.
The book came out in 1989. The Berlin Wall fell months later.
