The World Economic Forum has just finished up in Davos, Switzerland and this piece, though written before the conference, by Branco Milonovic perfectly describes what has gone on. Although #45 must have been in hog heaven, invited to big boys club instead of being on the outside looking in like the poor kid with his nose smashed against the window of a high class restaurant seeing all the goodies he couldn't get.

Are we underestimating American Imperial collapse? Perhaps.