Experts studying specific historical topics often reach conclusions OPPOSITE to public belief. Today's economy follows this pattern—"great on paper" while visibly failing outside your window. Despite glowing official numbers, real-world indicators tell a different story: household finances, quality of life measures, and cost of living reveal a crumbling reality. This episode exposes how elites manipulate statistics to maintain the façade while everyday Americans struggle beneath mounting evidence that something is fundamentally broken.
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LINKS:
Link to my second podcast on world history and interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@History102-qg5oj
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Link to my Twitter- https://x.com/whatifalthist
Link to my Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/rudyardwlynch/?hl=en
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Bibliography:
The Economics of Discontent by Jean Michel Paul
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
Capital by Thomas Picketty
Why Nations Fail by Robinson and Acemoglu
False Economy by Alan Beattie
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Crashed by Adam Tooze
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek
The Rise and Fall of Nations by Ruchir Sharma
The Growth Delusion by David Pilling
The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel
End Times by Peter Turchin
The Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Origins of Woke by Richard Hanania
The Absent Superpower by Peter Zeihan
Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama
The Storm before the Calm by George Friedman
The Soul of France pt 1 by Fernand Braudel
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
