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I don’t understand your argument. Just because times have been bad in the past doesn’t mean that America is “going in the right direction”

Did you read the article?

Also the 6 rounds of QE post 2008 is absolutely %100 unprecedented in US history. We have never ever increased the money supply like this. This activity combined with an abundance of cheap credit is what’s creating bubbles in housing, equities and other assets.

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So I've said there's decline, but that might be temporary, then given reasons why it might not be temporary. Are you even sure we disagree?

QE is a very recent invention. Inflation, such as during the Civil War, not at all. The money supply went full bonkers - and during the revolution itself; much worse, still. A "Continental" (the dollar of the time) came to mean "worthless."

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