Ignore 1929, 1987, 2000, 2007, 2008...
U.S. versus Rest of World
"Celebrate exceptionalism"
Two Octobers that didn't work out so well...
The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.