What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[Jester]

I thought of that, But, it was really WWI and WWII that commingled with that loss. It's hard to compare the British Empire of the late 1800's to 1920's, with that which emerged after WWII. Britain controlled in that era, 22% of the worlds land mass, and 20% of the worlds population.

France was the same, but less successful.

It's not like other empires just up and died without any cause. Regardless, Britain and France share what the US has, at least in some fraction - a developed internal state with an enormous tax base. Unlike most past empires, but like the British and French, the US is an empire because it is prosperous, not prosperous because it is an empire. The vast majority of the US economy is, and always has been, by and for Americans.

You'd need a return of "normal" demand for goods and services.

What, for you, would indicate "normality"?

-Jester