just new to the West. The Soviet Union managed to do such things for 70 years before finally collapsing. It's what happens when the economy is all fake and everything is manipulated and manufactured. "The worst part of living under communism is living a lie." -- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn We live in a much faster world. Instead of a Soviet-style 5-year plan (which is always surpassed), we have 100-day plans (watch for it come Jan. 20). At this rate, a 70-year collapse should only take 18.26 years... Kondratiev, eat your heart out. " The money will go into channels which will carry it, not the most productive, but to the most corrupt,. By the standards of our time , the man who has the least to offer is the man who wins. That money will vanish in projects such as the San Sebastian Mines " -Francisco d'Anconia " Rearden coud understand digust for any one thing, and he could fight that thing with the healthy indignation of knowing that it did not belong in the world, but this was new to him- this feeling that the world was a loathsome place where he did not want to belong [...] man's life was purposeful motion; what was the state of a being to whom purpose and motion were denied , a being held in chains but left to breathe and to see all the magnificence of the possibilities he could have reached, left to scream : WHY ? and to be shown