In my book “The Next 100 Years,” published in 2009, I predicted that in the 2020s the United States would experience a massive socio-economic crisis, as well as a substantial institutional crisis. The forecast was based on historic cycles, whereby the former occurs roughly every 50 years and the latter roughly every 80 years. Socio-economic […]
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Editor's note: To mark the Labor Day holiday, we are republishing this article, originally released in 2020.
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