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“The Storm Before the Calm reads as if Nostradamus had cooperated with an economic historian to forecast the fate of the United States. Friedman believes that: ‘The United States periodically reaches a point of crisis in which it appears to be at war with itself, yet after an extended period it reinvents itself…’”