Didn’t have time to read the whole thread,super long. This event has been building for quite some time. The irony is that the rich people started it by moving jobs out of this country to increase profits and they will have to be the ones to save the country too by believing “we can”. In the past this was done by appealing to national loyalty,don’t think that will work this time. The first nail was exporting jobs,the 2 nd nail was spending 10 Billion a month on an unnecessary war with no real mission or objective(I personally thought it was to get the oil,guess I was wrong), the 3 rd and final nail was the real estate bubble bust. Think about it how many people that you know actually add to the GDP through their job,that pretty much eliminates any service sector or government job.Buying and selling stocks doesn’t add to GDP,neither does buying gold/silver. I’m just going to focus on my microeconomics.