Economics is a favorite topic of many doomsdayers. In the 1970s and early 1980s many people, including Christians, predicted runaway inflation and the collapse of the monetary system. In the late 1980s and early 1990s it was the deficit which was going to bankrupt the nation and cause another great depression. Again, the monetary system was about to collapse and the message often included selling stocks, buying gold, and other assorted survivalist schemes. By the early 1980s fear had sold millions of books and helped some evangelists launch powerful media empires.
Communism lies in ruins, replaced by a growing commitment to free enterprise and capitalism.
The fear of communism was far worse than the reality, and that fear kept a lot of politicians and manufacturers in business. Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and many other areas of the world have experienced tribulations that for the victims have resembled the biblical descriptions quite sufficiently. The eighties saw one of the greatest periods of creativity and restructuring for greater productivity in the history of the country. Inflation went down, not up. And the 1990s have seen the greatest productivity and wealth creation in the history of the planet.