George Friedman: "... the United States is an unintended empire of vast power." [The Next Decade] Politics Books http://dld.bz/NsTe

The U.S. Constitution has been turned into "soft elastic." Economics Politics @WSJ @NPR [The New Empire of Debt] http://dld.bz/JjaP

"Rome's system of imperial finance was far more solid than America's." [The New Empire of Debt] @TheEconomist @50Cent http://dld.bz/JjaP