The World on Leverage: Geopolitics at Its Minsky Moment
January 18, 2026The world never enters its great catastrophes by stumbling into disorder.It slides into them, carried by the opposite illusion: that of stability. Hyman Minsky grasped this paradox at the heart of financial systems: the longer an order endures, the more it endangers itself. Safety breeds risk-taking; risk-taking becomes the norm; the norm manufactures collapse. The…