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Fast forward from staring at oily puddles to modern economists pretending they know what the stock market will do. Lecomancy was the highly respected art of pouring oil into a bowl of water and watching the shapes it formed. If it made a ring, things were okay. If it split into two drops, a king was probably going to get assassinated. It was literally the ancient equivalent of reading tea leaves, but for geopolitical warfare.
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