Originally Posted by PaulBarnard
We have been in a position from which we cannot recover for a long time. Bush set us on that path, Obama continued and Trump is carrying on with it.

True. The whole economic system (based on fiat currency and fractional reserve banking) has been doomed to crash for a while now, at least since 1971 when Nixon cut us completely loose from gold so as to fund the Vietnam War, and an endless string of needless wars thereafter.