Today, The Average Korean Works A Thousand

Empires, Essentially, Create Order. In Their Absence, You Don't End Up With Lots Of Happy, Little Nation-states Full Of People Sitting Around Campfires Singing John Lennon's "imagine." What You End Up With Is Civil War, Anarchy.

In Stalin's Russia Racial Persecution Was Often Disguised As Class Warfare. More Than 1.5 Million Members Of Ethnic Minorities Died As A Result Of Forced Resettlement.

American Empire- It Is An Empire That Lacks The Drive To Export Its Capital, Its People And Its Culture To Those Backward Regions Which Need Them Most Urgently And Which, If They Are Neglected, Will Breed The Greatest Threats To Its Security. It Is An Empire, In Short, That Dare Not Speak Its Name. It Is An Empire In Denial.

The West May Collapse Very Suddenly. Complex Civilizations Do That, Because They Operate, Most Of The Time, On The Edge Of Chaos.

When Bond Prices Fall, Interest Rates Soar, With Painful Consequences For All Borrowers.