re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I still think that historians will see that America was at its peak between Jan 1 1992, with the collapse of the USSR and Sep 11, 2001…We then hung on for a while until November 2016 where we started going downhill.

We are still far, far away from a collapse along the lines of Rome or Byzantium but yes, we will have to sober up and see that we can no longer compare our role in the world to what it was before 2001.

As a student of economics, stats show that American economic performance peaked in September 1973 and began to decline with the first OPEC oil embargo in October 1973. Ever since then, the US has been in economic decline.

As a student of history, it’s a fact that every empire falls sooner or later. We decided under McKinley to become an empire and that set in motion the inevitable decline.

Paid to be a double major at Pitt where the History department acted as a counterweight on the slavish Friedman/Rothbard devotion of the Economics department!