“America is a victim of its own flim-flam. The peak of it… probably came when Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of State, announced that the US was ‘indispensable’… and that ‘we stand taller… and ‘see farther’ than other people. Since then, we’ve gotten shorter… by almost every measure. Even life expectancy. The rest of the ‘western,’ fully developed nations in the G7 have an average lifespan of 83 years. In America, we live to 76… and life expectancies are falling, along with wages, productivity, GDP growth, trust in government, innovation, happiness and just about everything else.” (Bill Bonner, Bonner Private Research, May 2, 2023)
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