It can be said that much of our problems today started with what the United States did after World War II. I remember in high school history being told that the U.S. decided after WWII that it couldn’t return to it’s isolationist past, what the history teacher did not teach is how the U.S. became an empire. Today our consumption economy depends on the low cost of goods made outside the U.S., and reason why that cost is low depends on the overvalued U.S. dollar. The dollar is overvalued because it is needed by countries for trade.

Empires don’t last forever. Life in the United States is going to be very different in the future, and I fear it will be painful because Americans have been living off the privilege of this empire for so long they don’t even know how or why.

I strongly suspect that people in power, the political backers, the corporate CEOs, and the people whom they helped elect into office all know how bad things are going to get, which is why they are working so hard to get U.S. citizens fighting amongst ourselves and blaming anybody but those in power. In my opinion, this is what Trump’s efforts around crypto are truly all about.