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Notwithstanding sharp reductions in debt service traceable to the Fed’s zero-interest rate subsidy, the stock of debt is still about 116% of disposable personal income, well above the 43% average in the final three decades of the twentieth century.
The inability to accommodate Germany’s rise led to two world wars in the twentieth century;Japan’s confrontation with another Pacific power – the US – brought World War II to Asia.
In looking at the roster of long-serving heads of government in the second half of the twentieth century - such as Stalin, Mao, Franco, Kim Il Sung, and Ceausescu - it is clear that an enforced international term limit would have spared the world considerable grief and turmoil.
Over the course of the twentieth century, this arrangement produced recurring crises in which Turkish democracy was repeatedly interrupted by temporary military dictatorships.
Its high annual growth rates of 8-9% led to a tripling of its GNP in the last two decades of the twentieth century.
Twice in the twentieth century, the omnipotent Russian state was dramatically weakened: at the beginning, when the Russian Empire collapsed, and at the end, when the USSR ceased to exist.
Germany destroyed itself – and the European order – twice in the twentieth century, and then convinced the West that it had drawn the right conclusions.
Indeed, Myanmar was virtually untouched by the global economy’s spectacular growth during the twentieth century.
The US Commerce Department calls it “one of the great inventions of the twentieth century.”
There is a strong trend in many countries toward the aggressive nationalism that has led to so many catastrophes in history, not least during the first half of the twentieth century.
That is the remarkable story of the twentieth century.
The late twentieth century worked so well for Europeans.
This system, however, is not capitalism, but rather an economic order that harks back to Bismarck in the late nineteenth century and Mussolini in the twentieth: corporatism.
America’s recent failure to champion the international financial institutions represents a reversal of its approach during the latter half of the twentieth century, when it invested heavily in securing and maintaining their effectiveness.
Thus, a more supra-national form of politics is needed to re-embed markets in democratic processes, as happened during the course of the twentieth century with national politics and national markets.
Indeed, when Russians are asked to list the most important people of the twentieth century, Stalin is still tied for first place – with Lenin.
The United States is the most obvious example, with a net national saving rate of 2.6% in late 2015 – less than half the 6.3% average in the final three decades of the twentieth century – and trade deficits with 101 countries.
The Mars of the twentieth century is a lot less sure of itself in the twenty-first.
After the various revolutions in the early decades of the twentieth century, Confucianism was replaced by a Chinese version of Communism.
Across the US, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, a resurgence of identity politics and xenophobic nationalism threatens to reprise the great tragedies of the twentieth century.
India’s Urban AwakeningWASHINGTON, DC – When the United Kingdom became the first country in the world to undergo large-scale urbanization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the process transformed its economy and society.
At that time, operas of Verdi were performed three times more frequently than the operas of the top ten “modern” composers of the twentieth century!
An obvious historical parallel for today is the interwar period of the twentieth century, when Vladimir Lenin presented Soviet communism as a global brand, and founded the Communist International.
Some examples that we might relate to better can be found in the communist, centrally planned economies of much of the twentieth century, which also had no speculative markets.
Throughout the twentieth century, the US intervened repeatedly in Latin America to topple or subvert governments it did not like: in Cuba, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala, Haiti, El Salvador, Chile, and Grenada, to name only the most prominent cases.
Taken together, African politics, demography, and the delayed arrival of new technologies imposed severe headwinds against per-capita growth of agricultural output in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
What they envision would look very different from the model of the late twentieth century.
Had American forces not expelled the British from US territory in the first, and had Abraham Lincoln and the Union not prevailed in the second, the country would have been balkanized and unable to become the dominant power of the twentieth century.
By contrast, America’s flirtation with colonialism in the Spanish American War, its involvement in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean throughout the twentieth century, and, arguably, World War I, were not watersheds for the US.
Two other destabilizing developments emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century: a strong incentive to use debt to prop up demand, and a shift toward financing public debt through private institutions at market prices, under the pretext of fighting inflation.
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