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- 80 Years + ? = Next Depression
on Jan. 10, 2010
This e-book points out some of the deficiencies in our capitalistic system which have developed in the years since the Great Depression. The world has changed and become more complex and interrelated, so some of the content may be oversimplified, but the questions raised in this book do need to be addressed if the U.S. is continue its prosperity and growth into the 21st century. The ever-widening gap of power and wealth between the upper few percent and the rest of the country will inevitably cause our downfall if this trend is not reversed (and I currently live in a second world country so I have personal experience of the peril to society from unfettered avarice at the top). Mr. Whittman's review is fraught with panic about communism, a politico-economic model which is pretty much disproven and defunct (even China has become a quasi-capitalistic juggernaut now). A rational assessment of U.S. strengths and weaknesses should be welcomed rather than dismissed outright due to 1950-ish fears of a nearly deceased bugaboo.