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According to the writer, the global economy is on course for a significant mid-cycle slowdown if not a cycle-ending recession.
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John Kemp
LONDON - “Think it possible you may be mistaken,” England’s leader Oliver Cromwell demanded in a public letter to the Church of Scotland ahead of the battle of Dunbar in 1650.
Cromwell is not known to history for self-doubt or toleration, and the letter was written when he was at the head of an invading army, calling on his opponents to question their own beliefs rather than examining his own.
