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Imagine walking into your local bank or logging onto your favorite news site and feeling an immediate, gut-level suspicion that you are being misled. You are not alone. We are living through what experts call a global trust recession. From governments and NGOs to the biggest corporations on the planet, faith in our primary institutions is hitting historic lows. It is a structural credibility crisis that affects how we consume information, how we vote, and even how we view our neighbors. This decline in trust is not happening in a vacuum. Research shows a fascinating, if somewhat alarming, link between how we view the people living next door and how we view our government. This is called social trust. 

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