Table of Contents
Foreword Bill Bonner ix
1 Will the United States Go the Way of the Soviet Union? 1
2 The Megapolitics of a Changing World 26
3 The Political Economy of Plunder 40
4 Would Marx Be a Socialist Today? 53
5 Squandering the Spoils of a "Good War" 85
6 Financial Cycles and the Dollar in the Twilight of Hegemony 100
7 The "Great Degeneration" 124
8 FATCA, Dumb, and Happy 142
9 Beyond Kondratiev 173
10 Ecofascism and the Natural Causes of Climate Disruptions 189
11 Deconstructing the "Greatest Lie Ever Told" 201
12 Can Food Crises Trigger Collapse? 217
13 The Deep State 235
14 The Domino Effect 259
15 The Big Fat Lie 276
16 The Hidden BTU Content of Fiat Money 301
17 The Great Slowdown 326
18 The Declining State 356
19 Black Swans on the Horizon 397
20 The Idiot Principle of Deflation, and Why I Am One of the Idiots Who Sees It Happening 419
21 The Next Stage of Capitalist Development 445
22 Pirenne's Pendulum and the Return of the Organic Economy 484
Acknowledgments 501
Index 507
