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The Coming Storm

I see the bad moon risin'
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times today

Those lyrics are from the song Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1969, a time when our country was involved in the Vietnam War.

Our country is again at war, and the financial, health, political, and social landscapes are deeply divided and in chaos.

Financial

The United States is in serious economic trouble, and most people do not know the full extent of what is happening. They see ominous signs - many are personally struggling, but don't and cannot know the full extent of the dangerous road ahead unless they avid readers of hard-hitting economists like Robert Kiyosaki.

I am going to attempt here to provide a simple explanation of what is happening to us economically. It is really quite simple elementary school arithmetic. It is this same arithmetic that is used every day by the finance person in every business, and typically by the person in every family responsible for maintaining the family finances.

Here is the simple arithmetic: income - expenses = (if + surplus, if - debt)

The problem is debt. It's a big problem, in every business, in every household, and in the U.S. government. Very long ago, the U.S. government - actually like many other governments - made the decision to violate a basic principle of economics: to spend more money than was being taxed, and to borrow money from banks to provide the difference. The banks were more than willing to go along, because they were earning interest on that borrowed money. And the debt was never resolved. It became a permanent debt, a fixture, and the interest payment a permanent added annual expense.

That debt is now unsustainable. And wars add enormously to this debt. Payments to the defense contractors who provide the weapons of war, payments to the troops fighting the war, are enormous. The current war against Iran is running up a bill of $1 billion per DAY.

The current U.S. debt is now about $39 TRILLION! That is even more than the entire annual dollar value of all good and services.

At the personal and family level we face the same crisis. Thousand of businesses and many millions of individuals and families in the U.S. are in serious, sometimes unsustainable debt. And because of the Iran War, the cost of goods and services is rising dramatically.

Austerity and rational budget balancing are almost never discussed.

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