Economy
In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Monday, 19 January 2015 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)But, even if it is, the GOP Congress will soon fix that with Obama's connivance, and we will be in free-fall along with Europe and Japan, which will bring China down, too.
Alternatively, the US foreign war ventures can so foul up the nest that we end up plunging, and dragging Europe and the Middle East with us, which also takes down China.
If China and Africa get along, and Russia goes with them, enough to keep China out of hot water and away from the US downdraft, then there will be an overnight global financial inversion. And it won't be pretty for the USA. OR Europe.
The truth is, there has been no interest in this country of fixing THIS COUNTRY'S economy. Because that would take money from the 1% and the multinational corporations.
This is why people are frantically looking to Elizabeth Warren, in the belief that she could upend the handbasket and save us all from hell.
That's asking a lot of any one person. Elizabeth really needs an entire movement behind her...