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“There was nothing in this system not to America’s liking, since this system allowed it to control the non-Communist world by exporting inflation to it, while maintaining a flow of cheap raw materials and goods into the U.S. In effect, the United States didn’t really have to work or produce much if it didn’t want to, and this is exactly what happened.”
― Andrei Martyanov, Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse

“In 2020 the Bank of America estimated that “in 1985 it took 30 weeks at the median wage to pay for big fixed costs like housing, health care, a car, and education; fast forward to today when it takes a mathematically impossible 53 weeks of a 52-week year to buy those things.”
― Andrei Martyanov, Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse

“Without taking credit for his discoveries Tocqueville gives political science three new features not seen before—the concept of the social state (état social), the notion of those like oneself (semblables), and the practice of making predictions.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The immediate post-World War II period was the United States’ moment to shine,”
― Andrei Martyanov, Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse