Historians agree that Britain’s rise as a pre-eminent global power came as a response to changing circumstances and not as a part of a grand master plan; Britain, it has been said, stumbled into an empire.
October 7th, 2009 | Leon Hadar | 3 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "empire"
The American Empire Depended on Trade…and the Dollar
We would name the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of Lehman Bros – a period of only 19 years – as the peak of US power and wealth. Of course, Americans were dreaming during those years.
September 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
Mistakes Made By America Are the Same Mistakes That Empires Make
When a company goes broke, analysts always say: ‘it made mistakes.’ But people always make mistakes. One invests too little. Another invests too much. One innovates too little. One innovates too much.
May 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
America’s Decline as a Great Empire
“I think future historians will put the beginning of America’s decline as a great empire in the year 2003, when the U.S. invaded Iraq,” said a French historian at dinner last night…
July 14th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued