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Here on the back page we have long held that the US would eventually follow Argentina on the road to ruin. Amid all the noise and to-do of 2023, it was hard to follow the tune. But in the deep background, the tango beat grew stronger.
Stocks hit a high note; wars and massacres continued; US politics degenerated into buffoonery; inflation eased off.