Ray Dalio's framing of history is that three cycles run in parallel. The long-term debt cycle determines how much credit the system can absorb. The internal-order cycle determines how much social cohesion holds inside a country. The great-power cycle determines who sets the rules of the global system.
Each cycle alone is manageable. The dangerous configuration is when all three turn at the same time, because the policy responses that fix one tend to make the others worse. Tightening to defend the currency strains social cohesion. Loosening to soothe social pressures weakens the currency abroad.
For a trust the implication is structural rather than tactical. Jurisdiction redundancy, liquidity buffers, and governance that does not require a single decision-maker to be present become more valuable than incremental return when the configuration is tight. The same trust held in a benign regime will look over-engineered; in a tight regime it looks prudent.