It is no longer hard work, ingenuity, frugality, and consumer orientation... that determines his economic fate, but closeness to the central bank’s money printing press and meeting requirements for receiving government favors...
"I commend the peaceful protesters that actually saw something and they said something...You know we need more of that in this city, so we can come together as one. They definitely saved lives.”
Total and final collapses are very rare, mostly they just initiate a lengthy and potentially very dangerous transformation process, the outcome of which is almost impossible to predict...
...a US president’s real job is... not to make changes which benefit the American people...but to say pretty words which lull the public into a pleasant propaganda-induced coma while the sociopathic oligarchs who really run things rob them blind.
The people who pillaged stores in recent days deserve vigorous prosecution... but it is even less likely that the politicians and other government officials who inflicted far greater damage on the economy will ever be held liable.
"...everything was fine until the pandemic happened..."The establishment will try to rewrite history and many people will go along with it because the truth makes them look bad...