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The Ledger and the Labyrinth: Jared Kushner, Trumpworld, and the New Arithmetic of Power

Start with a ledger—not credits and debits, but favors as tender, time as compound interest, the Republic's attention as tradable asset. Jared Kushner sits at the fulcrum: family to the president, consiglieri to sovereign money, recurring name in deals from Balkan riverfronts to American media.