Website review: Closing the &039;Collapse Gap&039;:...
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laodan rated 12 months ago- The USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US in the Energy Bulletin by Dmitry Orlov
The subject of economic collapse is generally a sad one. But I am an optimistic, cheerful sort of person, and I believe that, with a bit of preparation, such events can be taken in stride. As you can probably surmise, I am actually rather keen on observing economic collapses. Perhaps when I am really old, all collapses will start looking the same to me, but I am not at that point yet. And this next one certainly has me intrigued. From what I've seen and read, it seems that there is a fair chance that the U.S. economy will collapse sometime within the foreseeable future. It also would seem that we won't be particularly well-prepared for it. As things stand, the U.S. economy is poised to perform something like a disappearing act. And so I am eager to put my observations of the Soviet collapse to good use. Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US The housing crunch that is so much feared nowadays is one of the fields that got pumped up with easy credit supplied to avid borrowers these last 10 years by the financial sector. But it's the accumulated debt that in the last instance constitutes the real problem for the stock markets today. But Dimitry Orlov sees further than the potential financial meltdown that is in the waiting. His primary concern focuses on the "cascading failure" of the machinery actioning our ideology of economic progress and economic growth. His essay recounts how the US is on the road to closing the collapse gap initiated by the USSR nearly 20 years ago...
- The USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US in the Energy Bulletin by Dmitry Orlov
- nameless-one rated 19 months ago
- An in-depth college lecture, arguing that the United States will face a serious economic collapse and comparing it's upcoming demise with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The author believes that, for a number of reasons, the United States' transition to a post-collapse society will be more difficult than that of the U.S.S.R. Some of his predictions are a bit sketchy, but this is still damned interesting stuff. Reminds me a lot of Jared Diamond's excellent book Collapse.
