The Second Great Depression was far more than merely an economic crisis. It included a diplomatic crisis that morphed into a series of conflicts one step removed from the fabled World War III of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century fiction. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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So what did most people do when everything fell? Well, most of the ones I know found a safe place, hunkered down, and waited for the chaos to fade. Those lucky enough to be in places like Texas had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the time the Second Great Depression hit America with its full steam, it was far too late for anyone to prepare. People were either in a region that was able to weather the economic collapse or they were not.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It began with a whimper, not a bang. A Friday afternoon announcement that the United States of America would no longer make payments on the debt to China a few other select nations that did not have America’s best interests[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So what did most people do when the Second Great Depression began? Most of those I’ve talked to didn’t notice it. Not for months, anyway. The networks chattered about it, but they chattered about a lot of fake news and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression’s opening months were pretty easy in most ways. There was no stock market crash for people to point at and say that’s the day everything changed. The American government simply announced that it was going to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression ended the world created by World War II. The United Nations was a grand experiment of the Western World after we defeated our enemies. What we failed to understand at the time was that not everyone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No one person could have stopped the Second Great Depression. That’s real hard for people to accept. They can know it, but most of the people I’ve talked to feel like someone could have stopped it. They feel that they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most historians say the Second Great Depression began when the American government stopped paying on the national debt to China and a few other nations. That is not entirely truthful. You can chart the economic trends for decades before, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s interesting to talk to people who lived through the Second Great Depression. The first thing most of them say is that they never saw it coming. The signs were there. Economists had warned them. Geopolitical experts had said it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…