It’s basically inertia, American economy has a massive stock of national wealth and trust. For decades, inflows like tax revenue and productive innovation filled the stock faster than outflows like debt and war spending drained it. And thanks to that, there’s a massive amount of resilience that’s been built up over many decades. Now the outflow is outpacing the inflow, but the existing stock is so large that we’re not seeing any catastrophic effects yet. A huge country can absorb a lot of pain before anything visibly changes. The US still has strong buffers like deep capital markets, the dollar’s reserve status, and a large domestic economy. Each successive mistake chips away at these buffers, and when the stock finally runs dry, the system will tip fast. The economy won’t collapse tomorrow, but it is living off stored up capital rather than current productive inflows. The damage is masked by the size of our existing stocks. Once those are gone, the real crash comes.
Each successive mistake chips away at these buffers, and when the stock finally runs dry, the system will tip fast.
Like a giant star going supernova once it runs out of fuel after a long time and lots of pressure (like hollowing out your industrial base + causing the Iranians to close Hormuz by martyring their Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and murdering 168 schoolgirls on the same day)
Basically what you’re saying is that if another Democratic president is elected, they’ll have to clean up the joint and reset the economy for the next Republican president who will get elected because the Democratic President repaired it but not fast enough?
It’s basically inertia, American economy has a massive stock of national wealth and trust. For decades, inflows like tax revenue and productive innovation filled the stock faster than outflows like debt and war spending drained it. And thanks to that, there’s a massive amount of resilience that’s been built up over many decades. Now the outflow is outpacing the inflow, but the existing stock is so large that we’re not seeing any catastrophic effects yet. A huge country can absorb a lot of pain before anything visibly changes. The US still has strong buffers like deep capital markets, the dollar’s reserve status, and a large domestic economy. Each successive mistake chips away at these buffers, and when the stock finally runs dry, the system will tip fast. The economy won’t collapse tomorrow, but it is living off stored up capital rather than current productive inflows. The damage is masked by the size of our existing stocks. Once those are gone, the real crash comes.
Like a giant star going supernova once it runs out of fuel after a long time and lots of pressure (like hollowing out your industrial base + causing the Iranians to close Hormuz by martyring their Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and murdering 168 schoolgirls on the same day)
Basically what you’re saying is that if another Democratic president is elected, they’ll have to clean up the joint and reset the economy for the next Republican president who will get elected because the Democratic President repaired it but not fast enough?
wash, rinde, repeat
The trajectory is exactly the same regardless of which bourgeoisie party is in charge. The all represent the interests of capital first and foremost. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B