6/4/2023 0 Comments Zeihan end of the worldThe background is good, the future is good. It’s grim reading, with sections outlining the future of manufacturing, agriculture, transportation and other key sectors. The result will be a collapse in living standards, as world powers devolve into regional blocs. And with every American build out for success, with every global decline, more money and more people with skills are going to relocate to the United States. Now that America is withdrawing from the world, the benefits of trade will disappear as we slide into a new anarchy. He added: "These are things that are working for us but are working against most of the rest of the world. That's geographic, that's local, and that's demographic." But the structural stuff we don't have to fight for. There are a lot of bumps along the road, there are a lot of things that we can and probably will get wrong. needs to double its industrial and manufacturing capacity. To bring inflation down, and remain immune from disruptions in the fragmented global supply chain, for instance, the U.S. Despite the bleak picture Zeihan paints for the rest of the world in his book, he predicts that the U.S., with its relatively isolated geography, promising demographics, and simpler supply chains, is well-positioned to not only weather the storm, but come out on top within the next few decades.
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