I've also noticed that your gold seems to disappear at an alarming rate without any reason why that I can see. Then all my troops desert and I can't build anything, money continues to go away, downward spiral into restart.
One thing I'm thinking is that when you build a building, you pay for it twice: once when selecting it and once when it completes.
The administrative expensives seem to rise just as fast as your income, so there doesn't appear to be any way to actually make enough money to pay for troops.
