The Next Super Power!

@TG:

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Read the buisness cycle: areas of recession -> high unemployment, areas of economic boom -> low unemployment
During “regular” periods (economy still grows but not as high > 3%) you’ll be hard pressed to find US unemployment +5%

well in canada we have in some plaes 18 % unemployment but we are making a lot of new jobs

aww that 18% is just Newfoundland. Here in Manitoba it’s down around/<5%.

That the U.S. will eventually fall is common sense.

However, I believe that the U.S. is still in the expanding stage of empire.

I see many parallels between the U.S. now and Rome shortly before the Punic Wars (or maybe during)

thus your “Carthage and Rome” reference

@TG:

How does GDP translate

Gross Domestic Product.

thanks

Through the area they ruled.

And those areas did not rise up in revolt? No spirit of the conuqered?

some did, some didn’t. Most of the time, from what i remember, they didn’t.

So when US begins its evitable decline, where will it be? Among the poorest nations of the world?

Surely not. Such a global destabilization is in no ones interest. None of the dominating powers since 1500 is among the poorest anymore……

@Deviant:Scripter:

Hehe, that quote almost works better than my original :wink:
It’s all good F_alk, I apologize. :)

grins … i hoped i could make a better one, but you didn’t supply me with the words i wanted :D
so, no worries :)

Surely not. Such a global destabilization is in no ones interest. None of the dominating powers since 1500 is among the poorest anymore……

Then what are you suggesting?

@TG:

Surely not. Such a global destabilization is in no ones interest. None of the dominating powers since 1500 is among the poorest anymore……

Then what are you suggesting?

the US will be the next Spain, or Holland if its lucky . . . :)

or portugal

@GeZe:

or portugal

it won’t be that lucky
8)

@TG:

Surely not. Such a global destabilization is in no ones interest. None of the dominating powers since 1500 is among the poorest anymore……

Then what are you suggesting?

I suggest to take a look at where the former superpowers (since 1500) stand now.

Were the superpowers of 1500 the sizeand population of the United States?

bigger (russia)

@TG:

Were the superpowers of 1500 the sizeand population of the United States?

sigh Come on TG…. tell me what you aim at, but don’t play dumb…

of course the superpowers at that time where fewer… but there was no artificial fertilizer available, and no phones, cars, computers etc…

The world has changed, true.
But: The world has got faster in more or less everything (called exponential growth … in knowledge, worldwide population etc). I don’t see how you can explain a permanent domination of one country on this basis. Rather i would expect that the rate of change in superpowers will become faster as well…

sigh Come on TG…. tell me what you aim at, but don’t play dumb…

What I am trying to say is that US will remain a superpower given its considerable size.

Rather i would expect that the rate of change in superpowers will become faster as well…

Rate of change?

What I am trying to say is that US will remain a superpower given its considerable size.

…and military strength. You always have friends if you’re the biggest guy on the block. :wink:

no… everybody hates you because your a big bully

America isnt always a big bully, but it has made some mistakes in the past that haunt her. She just has to learn from them.

better get started, you have a lot to look through

heh… if it were that easy… :roll: