AZnomics⚡ Turning Points
The moments that rewrote how the world works — and why they still matter today.
💡Foundational Ideas
📖1776
The Invisible Hand
Adam Smith rewrites the rules of how economies work
Foundational Idea🏛️1944
Building the World's Financial System
Forty-four nations meet in a New Hampshire hotel and design the global economy
Foundational Idea💵1971
The Day Money Became Faith
Nixon ends the gold standard — and changes the nature of money forever
Foundational Idea⚡Crises That Changed Everything
🏚️1929
The Great Depression
The crash that took a decade to recover from — and rewrote what governments do
Crisis🛢️1973
The Oil Shock
OPEC turns off the tap — and the West discovers how fragile its prosperity is
Crisis🌏1997
The Asian Financial Crisis
How hot money, pegged currencies, and IMF austerity brought tigers to their knees
Crisis🧮1998
When Genius Failed
Two Nobel laureates' hedge fund nearly destroyed the global financial system
Crisis🏚️2008
The 2008 Financial Crisis
How a housing bubble in Ohio became a global financial catastrophe
Crisis🇪🇺2010s
The Eurozone Debt Crisis
What happens when countries share a currency but not a government
Crisis🌀Quiet Revolutions
🌐1980s
Globalization
The world becomes one economy — and a billion people escape poverty
Quiet Revolution₿2008
Bitcoin and the Crypto Revolution
A response to the financial crisis that nobody asked for — and everyone is still arguing about
Quiet Revolution🤖2020s
The AI Economic Revolution
Intelligence becomes a commodity — and nobody knows what happens next
Quiet Revolution