03-08-2017, 04:07 PM
(03-08-2017, 03:52 PM)TeacherinExile Wrote: ... Still, the question remains: Was the loss in wealth caused by the Great Recession sufficiently dire--across the board--to constitute the Great Devaluation to which the book refers? Or does some greater financial calamity have to befall us? One that results not only in a paradigm shift in politics, which is obviously underway, but a paradigm shift in the political economy as well?
Yes, that's the real question isn't it? Trump is a huge unknown, but the business community thinks he's going to do for them first, and the others ... well, not so much. That may be changing as reality sets in, but that's still where we are. I'm still looking for a sell-off. I may be foolish, but I'm not getting further in. Not now.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.