There are a number of reasons why the United States is about to enter an era of extreme hardship and an economic crisis unequaled by any other depression in history. The ever repeating cycles of history and a psychology which has been slowly changing form since the turn of the century are creating an unraveling we are experiencing now.

Within the next few years, America will have to come to grips with an approaching economic winter that could result in the worst depression in its nearly 250 years of history. What we thought our children’s children would have to struggle through may be ours to endure.

Even though America escaped a depression in 2008, most economists and historians called the recession that crippled the United States from December 2007 to June 2009 as the Great Recession. This profound decline and contraction were partly the reason the economy has struggled to recover.

On the other hand, the Dow Jones and other major market indices have been experiencing an eight-year bull market that had investors once again proclaiming only blue skies for stocks for many years to come.

However, has anything really changed? Culture wars still prevail, America’s debt is at all-time record levels and many Americans are struggling day to day to make ends meet.

Many believe we have already had the once in a lifetime economic collapse. But as of early 2017, hardly anyone was predicting an economic deflationary contraction that would lead America into a dark and devastating depression that may come to be known as the Greatest Depression of all time in future history books.

Are we about to enter a period or era of poverty for many Americans? Is President Donald Trump in the wrong place and at the wrong time as President Herbert Hoover was?

 

Genre Non-Fiction