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economics
- Rotation Zero
A colony actuary's centennial reforecast recommends felling every tree and investing the proceeds at the Consortium's bond rate — and the fight to stop it becomes a fight over what discount rate a colony is allowed to place on its own future.
- Circularity
A colony Registrar audits sixty-one turns of a price index and finds no thief, no error, and no honest way to undo the third the index has drifted — only the discovery that a comparison across time was never a measurement, but an agreement made in eight words and forgotten.