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Russia Stockpiling Gold - MarketWatch Article suggests this may be a precursor to WW3 | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 23235058 United States 09/06/2012 11:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.marketwatch.com] "... As was first reported here in April of last year, according to International Monetary Fund calculations, the U.S. is on track to lose its status as the world’s biggest economy—when measured in real, purchasing-power terms—to China by 2017. We will soon be the first people in two hundred years to live in a world not dominated by either Pax Americana or Pax Britannica. This sort of changing of the guard has never been peaceful. The declines of the Spanish, French and British empires were all accompanied by conflict. The decline of British hegemony was a leading cause of the First and Second World Wars. What will happen as the U.S. loses its pre-eminence?..." |
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