What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[kandrathe]

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.

Oh, I think we'll be a player, but not with the same clout. This may be a good thing for the US anyway.

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

What, for you, would indicate "normality"?

When the red line on the chart below gets above zero and stays there for at least a year.



Note the correlation of Consumer demand with inflation(offset a quarter later). I was watching the last spike up, during our almost recovery in 2010, but it's not an issue again as we dipped back into recession in 2011.