Michael Moran: The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy, and the Future of American Power

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  • floridaorange
    I'm merely a humble butler
    • Dec 2005
    • 29105

    Michael Moran: The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy, and the Future of American Power

    This is an interesting lecture:



    The age of American global dominance is ending. In recent years, risky economic and foreign policies have steadily eroded the power structure in place since the Cold War. And now, staggering under a huge burden of debt, the country must make some tough choices--or watch its creditors walk away. In The Reckoning, Michael Moran, a geostrategy analyst at Roubini Global Economics, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other leading institutions, explores how a variety of forces are converging to challenge U.S. leadership--including unprecedented information technologies, the growing prosperity of countries like China, India, Brazil, and Turkey, and the diminished importance of Wall Street in the face of global markets.

    This shift will have serious consequences for the wider world as well. Countries that have traditionally depended on the United States for protection will have to adjust their policies to reality. Each nation will be responsible for its own human rights record, energy production, and environmental policy, and revolutions will succeed or fail unaided. Moran describes how, with a bit of political leadership, America can transition to this new world order gracefully--by managing entitlements, reigniting sustainable growth, reforming immigration policy, and breaking the poisonous deadlock in Washington. If not, he warns, the new era will arrive on its own terms and provide a nasty shock to those clinging to the 20th century.

    You can find more information about Michael's book in the Google Play Marketplace: http://goo.gl/xAaC2

    It was fun while it lasted...
  • vinnie97
    Are you Kidding me??
    • Jul 2007
    • 3454

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    Re: Michael Moran: The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy, and the Future of American Power

    Any levelheaded American should stop in their tracks when they see "Council on Foreign Relations," but I am unfortunately not surprised you continued to give him the benefit of the doubt.

    The emphasis on deregulation is a red herring as evidenced by a government that went too far in giving out and backing easy money.

    I get the strong impression that the responses are more sage and substantive than anything Michael "Moran" can conjure up.

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