indeed, everybody is propping America up, because America would take everybody down if she went underHaumana wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 7:35 pmThat is the crux of my question. Who really wants to come and take the big boy global pants? Who is gonna be HNIC and take all the arrows that come with that? I don't see anyone busting down the doors anytime soon either.Smitty-48 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 6:28 pmwell, in terms of an existential threat, I think it would be
the only existential threat to America remains at 15 minutes notice to launch on warning, DEFCON 1
otherwise I would expect America to remain a large and powerful economy into the distant future
I don't foresee a collapse, just a reckoning, the end of the free money, the return of expensive money
it's like all that debt that China & Japan are holding
what are they gonna do with it ? They are stuck with it
they can't call in those markers without blowing themselves up in the process