🔭 LONG TERM
🌳 STRUCTURAL STRESS — 5 TO 20 YEARS
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Structural score · 14 indicators · Updated daily
These signals don't scream. They whisper for years before the crisis becomes visible. Demographics, inequality, identity, trust — these are the slow patterns that decide a society's trajectory.
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🔬 THE INDEX THAT IMPRESSES ANALYSTS
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Beaver Physics — Turchin & Bifurcation
"History doesn't repeat itself. It rhymes."
🟣 Instability · Index 72

👶 Demographics

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Total Fertility Rate
"America no longer reproduces itself."
CDC · FRED · updated yearly
1.63
🔴 Critical
Predicts 10–20 years
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Infant Mortality Rate
"5.4 per 1,000 — worst among wealthy nations."
CDC WONDER · updated yearly
5.4
🟠 High
Predicts 5–15 years
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Foreign-Born Population Share
"14.3% born abroad — up from 4.7% in 1970."
Census · updated yearly
14.3%
🟠 Transition
Predicts 10–20 years
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Single-Parent / Nonmarital Births
"39.5% of births outside marriage — family structure collapse."
Census · CDC · Todd & Putnam
39.5%
🔴 Critical
Predicts 15–30 years

💀 Deaths of Despair

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Drug Overdose Deaths
"~69,000 deaths a year — the strongest US marker (Case & Deaton)."
CDC WONDER · updated monthly
~69k
🔴 Critical
Predicts 5–20 years
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Male Suicide Rate
"22.1 per 100,000 men — rising for two decades."
CDC WONDER · updated yearly
22.1
🟠 High
Predicts 5–20 years
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Alcohol-Related Liver Deaths
"12.7 per 100,000 — chronic liver disease, alcohol's main toll."
CDC WONDER · updated yearly
12.7
🟠 High
Predicts 5–20 years

🎓 Education and Elites

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Education Gap Men/Women
"Women 37.4% vs men 34.8% with a degree — the gap widens by cohort."
Census ACS · updated yearly
+2.6pts
🔴 Critical
Predicts 10–20 years
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Elite Overproduction
"4.0 lawyers per 1,000 — Turchin's wealth-pump signal."
ABA · Turchin
4.0‰
🟠 High
Predicts 10–25 years

💰 Economy and Inequality

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Housing Affordability Ratio
"Prices ~4.8× annual median income."
FRED · updated quarterly
~4.8x
🔴 Critical
Predicts 5–15 years
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Top 1% Income Share
"21% of national income to the top 1% — popular immiseration (Turchin)."
World Inequality Database · manual
21%
🔴 Critical
Predicts 5–20 years
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Household Debt Burden
"Debt service eating into disposable income."
FRED · updated quarterly
~11.2%
🟠 High
Predicts 3–10 years

🏛️ Society and Institutions

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Secularization (Religious "Nones")
"29% with no affiliation — anthropological shift (Todd)."
Pew Research · manual update
29%
🟠 High
Predicts 10–30 years
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Social Trust / Trust in Government
"~22% trust the federal government — near historic low (Putnam)."
Pew · Gallup · manual update
~22%
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Predicts 10–25 years
🧬 Methodology
The structural score aggregates 14 structural indicators drawn from Todd, Turchin, Case & Deaton and Putnam (fertility, infant mortality, births to foreign-born parents, single-parent families, drug overdoses, male suicide, alcohol deaths, M/W education gap, elite overproduction, housing, top 1% income share, household debt, secularization, social trust). Automated from FRED, CDC WONDER and Census; five indicators are updated manually once a year from their primary source — secularization (Pew), social trust (Gallup), top 1% income share (World Inequality Database), elite overproduction (ABA National Lawyer Population Survey) and single-parent births (CDC NVSS). No invented numbers.