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Chapter 4
The Hemispheric War
The rest of the country wasn’t much interested in violence in 2028. They were engrossed in national affairs. This civic-mindedness began 7 years before as America slouched into 2021 and the stock market began a slow but relentless decline.
Many experts contended the cause was that the already amended Dodd-Frank reforms inspired by the 2007 economic meltdown were not strict enough in controlling derivatives. After all, by 2021 derivatives, those side bets on stocks that had nothing to do with GNP, were valued at over $3 quadrillion. The entire world GNP was only about 100 trillion, so the real economy was a small fraction of the casino, derivative economy and therefore very vulnerable to a derivative meltdown.
But no, the real problem began with a drop in demand for goods and services. Every day over four-hundred million Americans had been casting trillions of economic votes for more and more. This dynamic was increased after the Great Recession of 2008-2015, when the country
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