United States of America

The United States of America (USA) is a constitutional republic in North America since 1776.

• Jan, 2022 - The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II.¹⁾

By most measures, the U.S. economy is the largest in the world, owed largely to an active science and technology sector that powers an extremely diverse collection of industries.

• Feb, 2004 - James Howard Kunstler talk: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs.²⁾

In 1995, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank promised to back (insure) subprime mortgage bonds.

In 1997, velocity of the dollar peaked³⁾, and likely will never reach the same levels. The growth of the mortgage bond and more generally debt markets all but ensured that outcome.

The phrase “green shoots” was used to describe the rebuilding of pieces of the U.S. economy in the wake of the mortgage bond collapse, but that looks optimistic in retrospect.

Tim Geithner promised a “recovery summer” in 2010, but that never really took shape.

• U.S. Presidential Elections