Contents

Foreword by Bill Bonner

One: Will the United States Go the Way of the Soviet Union?

Two: The Megapolitics of a Changing World

Three: The Political Economy of Plunder

Four: Would Marx Be a Socialist Today?

Five: Squandering the Spoils of a “Good War”

Six: Financial Cycles and the Dollar in the Twilight of Hegemony

Seven: The “Great Degeneration”

Eight: FATCA, Dumb, and Happy

Nine: Beyond Kondratiev

Ten: Ecofascism and the Natural Causes of Climate Disruptions

Eleven: Deconstructing the “Greatest Lie Ever Told”

Twelve: Can Food Crises Trigger Collapse?

Thirteen: The Deep State

Fourteen: The Domino Effect

Fifteen: The Big Fat Lie

Sixteen: The Hidden BTU Content of Fiat Money

Seventeen: The Great Slowdown

Eighteen: The Declining State

Nineteen: Black Swans on the Horizon

Twenty: The Idiot Principle of Deflation, and Why I Am One of the Idiots Who Sees It Happening

Twenty-One: The Next Stage of Capitalist Development

Twenty-Two: Pirenne’s Pendulum and the Return of the Organic Economy

Acknowledgments

Index