The Second Great Depression changed everything for America first, and then the rest of the world. We’d all been spending more money than we had, and global debt had skyrocketed long past any ability to pay back. Most people and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Whether it existed as a Constitutional Republic or an effective Democracy, many began foretelling the Third American Republic’s downfall as early as 2000 or 2010. While the elections of 2008 and 2016 certainly proved to be clarion calls when it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The people I’ve talked to who lived through the Second Great Depression remember a time of plenty and opportunity. And a time of horrible division. They could buy anything they wanted from food to electronics. They could move from coast[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the things that made the Second Great Depression as bad as it was is the decades of political and cultural division that preceded it. Identity politics divided people by race, sex, religion, politics, and more. Those who had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most historians separate the history of the United States of America into the Colonial Era, the American Confederation, and the four American Republics. The Colonial Era of course speaks about the time under British Rule, which ended with the Revolution[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know people who lived through the years leading up to the Second Great Depression. They’ve told me what it was like back then. They had access to the best technology ever invented. They could talk to anyone in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many people called it the Second American Republic at the time. The result of the Civil War. Most historians call it the Third Republic. The result of Roosevelt’s New Deal. America’s been through a lot of changes over the centuries,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most American citizens did not care when the American government stopped paying the interest on certain foreign loans. They did begin to care when the Chinese raised their prices and cheap Chinese goods became expensive Chinese goods. They cared even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fall of Japan and Taiwan. The Korean Unification. The Invasion of the Philippines. I’ve talked to people who lived through all of it. The funny thing is, most of them never even knew it was happening. America had her[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression started when the American government defaulted on its foreign loans. That’s the standard lesson taught in history. It’s more accurate to say that a newly elected Congress stopped paying the interest on certain foreign loans to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…