EVERYTHING is a Lie in This Country

Just Like the Nearly Non-existent Attendance at His Rare Campaign Events! Nearly No One!! Yeah Right.This Mere "Husk of a Man" Got 80 million Votes. My Ass!

From Gatewaypundit:

It’s well known that whenever CNN has a town hall event for a Democrat it’s always a pre-staged and packaged event.

CNN hack Donna Brazile cheated and gave Hillary the questions before her debate with Bernie Sanders.

CNN filled up its 2007 Hillary Clinton town hall with Democrat operatives.

CNN stacked its anti-gun town hall in 2018 and was accused of scripting the questions.

And tonight CNN moved all of its audience to the first few rows so that it appears there is actual interest in America to see Joe Biden stumble all over himself in a town hall.

Critical Race Theory's Logical Endpoint In America: Collapse Like South Africa, Zimbabwe

South Africa and Zimbabwe are the logical endpoints of Critical Race Theory as it's the systematic  marginalizing of White People and preferentially putting Blacks in Charge regardless of qualifications. See my post: It's systemic Anti-White Racism. It's racism!  It's EXACTLY like the reverse racism in America TODAY. And it's being promoted by Democrats.

It was tried in Zimbabwe too. SADLY, IT ALSO ENDED IN A TOTAL DISASTER OF WAR, BLOOD, STARVATION, HYPERINFLATION, EXTREME POVERTY AND SUFFERING BEYOND IMAGINATION, IE., HELL!

See my posts The US is NOT a Racist Country; Except for Reverse (White & Asian) Discrimination and Whites Demonized, Reverse Racism and "Blackness" Promoted.  There are many more.

Democrats Bowing to Their "God" of Blackness

Despite CENTURIES OF EVIDENCE that Black individuals, Black families, Black communities and Black Countries CAN RARELY MANAGE themselves or their communities in any remotely advanced or modern way, the US Congress has ignored all that and now worships at Black feet at the expense of our dominant White culture!  RACISM!!

Now that Blacks are held in the highest esteem as the wisest, greatest and worthy of the highest respect and honor in our country, thanks to the Democraps, is our collapse not far away??  

Like in Africa and major US urban areas, putting Blacks in Charge leads to collapse with WHITES IN THE CANNIBAL'S POT.  It's happening right now, right under our noses. Whites voting Democrat is a consequential vote to displace or EXTERMINATE themselves!

Mind you, I wouldn't mind seeing our black-loving Democrats in the cannibal's pot.  I'd like mine medium rare, please!

As soon as radical ANC Blacks with their predictable and lousy Marxists ideas were put in charge in South Africa under Mandela, responsible and intelligent white civil servants were escorted from most official buildings. "Friends" of the ANC were put in charge instead with no regard for qualifications. 

Decades later, the result: South Africa is collapsing under black rule. They can't even keep the electricity online consistently. Bands of black thugs, even before the recent violence, have been attacking, terrorizing and killing white people. Land confiscation is next, mostly farm land held in white hands. Their plan is to put black people on these farms, but they'll find that they will starve to death just like they did in Zimbabwe.  For decades it has been a steady descent into disorder and suffering.  

Now it's sudden (but entirely predictable) waterfall of events into chaos, bloodshed, disorder, murder, and eventually starvation.

From ZeroHedge:

President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed the military to quell the unrest, but nothing has worked so far worked.

Civilians are defending their own communities and running low on food, fuel, and ammo; supply chains are destroyed, and it wasn't quick, about a week, as the country faces collapse. 

On Tuesday, Sapref refinery near Durban, operated by Shell and BP, had shuttered operations due to civil unrest.

There's also news that the country's top chicken and meat processor, Rainbow Chickens Ltd., was raided by looters, which means widespread food shortages could be imminent. 

Allegedly, some security firms are reporting police are "low on ammunition."

From Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, July 19, 2021 

Police officers are positioned to deal with looting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 12, 2021. Soldiers have been deployed in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces to deal with violent protests and looting. (Credit Image: © Yeshiel / Xinhua via ZUMA Press)

Though most media covered it sparingly, South Africa nearly collapsed. Revolver has an excellent article suggesting that South Africa has reached the endpoint of Critical Race Theory, or state-sponsored racism against whites. I’m not so optimistic.

Blacks, more specifically, some blacks have taken over the government of South Africa and are running the country in their own interests. [Doug here: WHAT??  Say it's not so!!} The new “Rainbow Nation” is built on repudiating the old, successful white South Africa. I suspect things will not get “so bad” that the people will rise up and overturn the corrupt African National Congress. Black radicals will probably gain power and push through more attempts to punish whites — even in tiny villages such as Orania — and there will be more attacks on “white monopoly capital.”

A police officer walks in a looted shop in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 12, 2021. (Credit Image: © Yeshiel / Xinhua via ZUMA Press)

US Leftists occasionally invoke South Africa as a model for the United States. In These Times, Slate, Politico, Foreign Policy, NPR, The Nation, and other publications have called for “Truth and Reconciliation Commissions” for the United States. These commissions have made divisions worse. Some in South Africa speak of the possible separation of a greater “Orania” from “Azania.” That would be the best solution.

Unfortunately, the most likely solution is that the country will be held together by force. Moreover, South-Africa-style chaos could come here. Joe Biden and others who helped destroy the old South Africa bear moral responsibility.

One popular explanation of the violence is that supporters of former president Jacob Zuma are trying to get President Cyril Ramaphosa to pardon his predecessor and resign. It may have started that way, but now the process can’t be controlled.  [Doug here: the explanation ALWAYS IS that Blacks in Charge BRING MURDER, DISORDER and RUIN]

It now appears that South Africa has imposed a tenuous order — after at least 212 deaths. President Ramaphosa responded energetically, making three national addresses in six days, and calling it an insurrection.

Fiat Money is a Con Job

From the New York Post this morning:

"Democrats are united in the belief that laws of economics no longer exist. That you can spend trillions upon trillions — anything you want, really — with no downside.

The laws of economics respectfully disagree.

Inflation is up 5.4 percent year-over-year, the largest increase in 13 years. Partly, that’s the bounce-back from the pandemic, but it’s also because of the massive spending bills pushed through by both the Trump and Biden administrations.

Some stimulus was clearly necessary, but now that the economy is heating up again, the Democrats want to spend even more — $6 trillion."

But every bit of that government money will be pissed away on absolutely nothing but graft, corruption, kick-backs, support for unions and union workers, etc. If the government created a program to distribute safety pins, it would cost at least a $1BILLION, now and into the forseeable future, to create an entirely new bureaucracy to maintain safety pin distribution!! They'll call it "investment" or "infrastructure spending" but it's guaranteed that there will be no productive assets after all the pissing.  It will all be wasted. 

There is no concern about the debt burden that never goes away. With nothing spent on anything with an economic return, like a private sector investment, our future is grim. Yes, the government can cancel the debt or default, but that debt is someone else's asset.  The whole scheme will fall apart. We be broke.

I wrote a post called Extremes in Unsound Money and Finance Will (Eventually) Lead to Catastrophe back in Feb 2018.  I highly recommend that you read it.  It has a section on how sound money actually works.  Not that many people are alive that remember and/or understands sound money, so we're doomed to failure at some point--with huge suffering for the country.

The idea that the "government" can actually produce or create anything at this point is laughable.  Infrastructure??? What a fucking joke. The "government," with total dipshits at the helm, can't do shit. We found that out from the $700 B bailout passed in 2008 or thereabouts.  Contained within the allocated money was some 3% or about $24 B for "infrastructure" and "shovel ready" work.  Years later that money wasn't even spent and Obama joked "I guess there weren't shovel-ready jobs afterall."   It's a sick joke and shows the TOTAL INCOMPETENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT.  Nobody knows what they are doing. There is no oversight or accountability. It's all just one useless "blob" now.  They are pissing away money that they don't have.

Sadly, the Federal Reserve is now completely captured by the "government." and they will create reserves like crazy to fund the government (buy their bonds) and do as they're told.  It's really the final looting of America.   There's no reversing this.

Everyone's savings HAVE ALREADY BEEN devalued in a very devious way  -- you just haven't figured it out yet. ANY and ALL of the "printed" money (reserve creation or "high powered money"creation) is an immediate inflation of the money supply ---- reducing the future value of YOUR MONEY.   

 

Once money is created it's been proven that it can never be reversed or cancelled.  Therefore inflation is stored for the future.  They have already looted your savings.  You just can't see it yet.  The Federal Reserve tried to reduce it's balance sheet slightly for about 6 months in 2018 and the markets cracked-up.  Then it was back to MASSIVE new "reserve creation" or money "printing" galore. It can NEVER END.

 

Inflation is starting to pick up dramatically now. The inflation numbers this morning are eye-popping and they are likely UNDERSTATED.

Once people get wise to this, inflation will really ramp up. It's starting to happen. That's why people are buying housing with 3% loan money.  They are being given 3% money, some 90% of those loans from the FNMA or FHA (government) with housing gaining more than 10% per year.  What a great deal!! 

When the Federal Reserve creates bank reserves ("prints"), they buy government bonds from big banks: the favored TBTF banks, and pays the banks with newly created money. This effectively gives money DIRECTLY to the top 0.01% wealthiest of people: wealthy traders, Bank CEOs, Bank officers and their entire bank trading divisions to "pump up the market." 

 

Because of the repeal of Glass-Steagall, there is no limits as to what these banks can do with those new deposits. Without Glass Steagall, all of the favored money center banks are now giant hedge funds who can use YOUR DEPOSITS and the Fed's new deposits to buy stocks, bonds, derivatives or anything else.  They are certainly buying stocks which helps-out the already wealthy AND THE BANKS THEMSELVES.  It's a PONZI SCHEME.

 

They've created an enormous bubble in equities and a huge amount of confidence in small investors that the market can never go down!  The wealthy own 90% of stocks including most members of Congress.  They, and all the very wealthy, are being FURTHER enriched beyond our wildest imagination.  Like I said, it's the final looting of America by the wealthy---who are the first to receive the "new" money.

Washington DC needs to be nuked. The country would be much better off both here and abroad. It's an entirely evil enterprise now with nothing but evil, corrupt people "in charge."

PCR: Blue America Hates Us and is Out to Get You

By Paul Craig Roberts

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is a tool of the Democrat machine. The office is out to destroy Republicans, especially Donald Trump and his family.

There are no valid charges against Trump and his daughter, Ivanka. But prosecutors do not need valid charges. The way they proceed (see Paul Craig Roberts, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, 2000) is to overwhelm a third party with false charges until the third party agrees to lie in order to incriminate the real target in exchange for dropped charges. This is the way many federal convictions are obtained.

Vanity Fair, a Trump-hating publication, is delighted to regale its Trump-hating readers with a description of how the Manhattan District Attorney’s office has concocted “a slew of criminal charges, including conspiracy, grand larceny, and multiple counts of tax fraud and falsifying records” against Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the Trump business organization.

[Doug here: If Trump can be continually harassed by partisan, ZEALOUS and/or crooked prosecutors, ANY ONE OF US is at risk of being railroaded into jail by a zealous prosecutor. Now you know how black persons in Blue cities feel by getting locked-up for a lousy roach in their pocket or looking sideways at a police officer. ]

The MSNBC presstitutes have already convicted Weisselberg in the media, as happened to officer Chauvin. MSNBC got former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne to say on TV that the charges were just an opening salvo and that Weisselberg should seriously consider pleading guilty and cooperating against the Trumps. Former federal prosecutor Alksne said that prosecutors are pressuring Weisselberg by telling him they have everything they need to put him away. His only chance is to turn state witness against the Trump family. In other words, we will drop our lies against you if you will lie for us against Trump and his daughter.

Crime and punishment in the US has been so totally corrupt for so long that neither Vanity Fair or former federal prosecutor Alksne realize how corrupt the process is that they are so excited about. They are describing law wielded as a weapon to settle scores or destroy a political rival. This is what law means to them. They already live in their minds in third world despotisms.

John Steven Anderson, 61, struggling to breathe approached police on January 6 and requested help. Seeing an opportunity, the police arrested him for “assaulting, resisting, or impending certain officers,” and other federal felonies. A 30-second video clears him, but the prosecutors refuse to release the exculpatory evidence. The attitude is that Trump supporters belong in prison, and that is where Anderson is headed.

Prosecutors have achieved thousands of convictions by withholding exculpatory evidence. Judges accept the false claims that the evidence is “highly sensitive” and subject to a restrictive protective order and, thereby, permit the withholding of the exculpatory evidence and conviction of the innocent.

In Michigan the extreme leftist state attorney general, Dana Nessel, is trying to arrest people who reported electoral fraud. Having blocked investigations into the stolen Michigan election, Nessel argues that it is commission of fraud to make claims of fraud. The weak-minded Republicans, of course, enabled her by refusing to be confrontational and insist on looking into the voting miracles that occurred in Michigan. If you are a Republican, the worst thing you can do is to rock the boat.

Having recently read David Irving’s histories of World War II, I perceive the Democrats acting precisely as did the Nazis. The Democrats are going about eliminating their opponents in the same way. In Nazi Germany lawyers who defended Jews could find themselves unable to continue as lawyers, which is precisely what just happened to Rudy Giuliani for defending President Trump.

In the US today I see the same suppression of opinion that differs from the official narrative as occurred in Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. Look around you:

• Your children, if they have white skins, are taught in school to be ashamed. If you complain you are called a racist and brushed aside. 
• American kids are taught to hate themselves, their parents, and their country. 
• White employees in corporations, government, universities, and military are forced to take “racial sensitivity training” where they are abused for being white. 
• Expert virologists, immunologists, and medical persons are deplatformed and silenced if they depart from the Covid narrative. 
• People lose their jobs for attending the Trump rally and for using gender pronouns. 

These are not rare orunusual happenings. They are institutionalized, and if your behavior is nonconforming you pay a price. Whatever this is, it is not a free country. Those whose agenda this is are very happy with it, and those who are persecuted by the agenda are isolated in their protests. A school teacher, school principal, nurse, university professor complains and is fired. It might make the local news, in which case it serves to intimidate others, and protest ceases.

Americans need to wake up and understand that they are losing their country. What is taking its place is so very ugly. [Doug here: I've become a bit of an expert in retirement visas across the world, and I am making plans to live abroad by the end of this year. If you want to know more, then use the "contact form" found on the desktop version of this site or use my email is in my personal profile on the desktop version of this site.]

How Trump Voters Formed an Ugly—and Accurate—View of America’s Ruling Regime

From a Twitter Thread of Martyr Made via The American Mind 

I’ve had discussions at this point with a wide range of Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent. I think I can extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of most of the people who were at the Capitol on January 6, and probably even that of Trump himself.

Most of these people believe some or all of the various theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc. But what you find when you talk to them is that, while they’ll defend those positions with information they got from Hannity or Breitbart or various other sources, they’re not particularly attached to them. If the theories were disproven, it wouldn’t disprove the fraud for them. That’s because there are far more important facts—actual, confirmed facts—that shape their perspective. Here they are:

A Glimpse Behind the Curtain

To begin with, the FBI and other intelligence agencies spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign. We now know that all involved knew this evidence was fake from Day One (see just for one example: this memo from July of 2016 by former CIA director John Brennan).

Many of the people who believe in fraud are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in their bios. To them, the intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (including falsified documents) is a big deal. Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they could. This was true with everyone, from Brennan and Representative Adam Schiff—who were on TV saying they’d seen clear evidence of collusion with Russia, while admitting under oath behind closed doors that they hadn’t—all the way down the line. In the end we learned that it was all fake. But we only learned key information—including that the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence—because of a court order. James Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid for it, when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he knew.

At first, many Trump supporters were worried there must be some collusion, because every media and intelligence agency wouldn’t make it up out of nothing. When it was clear that they had made it up, people expected a reckoning. When that didn’t happen, they shed many illusions about their government.

We also know, as fact:

• That the fraudulent Steele Dossier was the sole evidence used to justify spying on the Trump campaign,
• That the FBI knew the Steele dossier was a DNC op,
• That Steele’s source told the FBI the info was unserious, and
• That they did not inform the court of any of this and kept spying.

Trump supporters know this collusion case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real, to suspecting it might be fake, to realizing it was a scam. Then they watched as every institution—agencies, the press, Congress, academia—gaslit them for another year.

Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration. They knew their entire lives would be investigated. Many quit because they were being bankrupted by legal fees. The Department of Justice, press, & government destroyed lives and actively subverted an elected administration throughout the whole affair.

This is where people whose political identity was largely defined by a naïve belief in what they learned in Civics class began to see the outline of a Regime that crossed all institutional boundaries. Because it had stepped out of the shadows to unite against an interloper.

The Lies

GOP propaganda still has many of these Trump supporters thinking in terms of partisan binaries. But a whole lot of them see that the Regime is not partisan. They all know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it was a Tulsi Gabbard vs. Jeb Bush election. It’s hard to describe to people on the Left, who are used to thinking of the American government as a conspiracy (see for example, Watergate, COINTELPRO, the Weapons of Mass Destruction, etc.) how shocking and disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and who are appalled when others don’t stand for the Anthem.

They could have managed that shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any politician or government official, because they feel most betrayed by them. The idea that the press is driven by ratings and sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they’d be all over the Jeffrey Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period.

This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don’t know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc., would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it’s probably true. They watched the press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will always see Brett Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered on a summer of riots.

Trump supporters always claimed the media had liberal bias. Fine, whatever: they still thought the press would admit truth if they were cornered. They don’t think that anymore. It’s a different thing to watch them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy regular lives and spark mass violence. Time magazine told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly conference calls involving—among others—leaders of the protests, the local officials who refused to stop them, and media people who framed them for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color revolution.

Then, throughout the summer, establishment governors took advantage of COVID to change voting procedures. It wasn’t just the mail-ins: they also lowered signature matching standards, got rid of voter ID and notarization requirements, and much more. Forget the ballot conspiracies. It’s a fact that governors used COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) and help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system.

At this point Trump people had lived through not only the collusion scam but also a fake impeachment. We now know that Trump’s request for Ukraine to cooperate with the Department of Justice regarding Biden’s financial activities in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine Attorney General at the time, and so a completely legitimate request. So Trump people expected shenanigans by now.

Then you get the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech companies now admit it was a “mistake“—but, ya know, the election’s over, so who cares? It hardly needs saying that if the New York Times had Don, Jr.’s laptop, full of pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company they were using, the New York Times would not have been banned.

So now think back: Stories about Trump being pissed on by Russian prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its source. And then the New York Post was banned for reporting on true information.

The reaction of Trump people to all this was not, “no fair!” That’s how they felt about Romney’s “binders of women” in 2012. This is different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by ppl who will use any means to exclude them from the political process. And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13 million more votes than in 2016—10 million more than Hillary Clinton. As election night dragged on, Trump supporters allowed themselves some hope.

But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew.

The Aftermath

Over the ensuing weeks, they got shuffled around by grifters and media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched onto one, then another increasingly absurd theory as they tried to put a concrete name on something very real. Media and Tech did everything to make things worse. Everything about the election was strange—the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays, etc.—but rather than admit that and make everything transparent, they banned discussion of it (even in DMs!).

Everyone knows that, just as Don, Jr.’s laptop would’ve been the story of the century, if everything about the election dispute was the same, except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would’ve been Taken Very Seriously. See 2016 for proof.

Even the courts’ refusal to hear the fraud case gets nowhere with those who have seen these truths, because the opposition embraced mass political violence. Trump supporters say, with good reason: What judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he’ll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns down his house?

It’s a fact, according to Time, that mass riots were planned in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were “protests,” but they were planned by the same people as during the summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. Judges have families, too.

Trump voters knew the changes to election law were unconstitutional, it’s right there in plain English. But they knew the cases wouldn’t see court until after the election. And what judge will toss millions of ballots because a governor broke the rules? The threat of mass riots wasn’t implied, it was direct.

The entrenched bureaucracy and security state subverted Trump from Day One. The press was part of the operation. Election rules were changed. Big Tech censored opposition. Political violence was legitimized and encouraged. And Trump was banned from social media. People are putting these things together into a very ugly—and quite accurate—account of how their country works. Trump voters were led down some rabbit holes. But they are absolutely right that their government is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them getting it. Trump fans should be happy he lost. It might’ve kept him alive.

We're Reaching the End of the Road, Part 2

From my 2017 post, We're Reaching the End of the Road, I show a litany of problems that together spell the end of real economic growth in the US, especially since the Great Financial Crisis in 2008.  If real growth has ended, the rapid and unsustainable increase of debt at every level of the society spells an inevitable doomsday financial crisis: perhaps the greatest one.  

Since GDP includes government spending, increasing government spending has given headline GDP numbers a lift and gives the impression that all is well -- even getting better. But is it?  Much of that government spending is funded by debt and money printing.  Those robust GDP headlines ignore debt. 

In economics, one of the most important relationships is really the simplest:   

Real GDP growth = Productivity Growth + Population Growth.  

Let's examine those two factors below.

I. Shrinking US Population

Suddenly data is indicating (unexpected by most), that the US working age population is now shrinking by about 1% per annum.  This explains many of the headlines now that businesses are struggling to find workers and many have to offer more money to get help. It's because of our shrinking "working age" population (plus the generous unemployment benefits that are further shrinking the available pool of labor).

Declining Working Age Population in the US Spells Doom

This "shrinkage" should be no surprise since Economica Blog posted graphs (which I posted in We're Reaching the End of the Road) that show that populations in the world's most important economies are now declining:

The World's Major Economy's Populations are Shrinking  (from Econimica Blog)

Our Declining Working Age Population (15 to 64 yo) (from Econimica Blog)

II. Productivity Growth Is Also Mediocre

So, we've established that the most important portion of the population is shrinking both here and abroad (while debt is EXPLODING). THE GLOBE IS RACING TOWARD A FINANCIAL CRISIS. Eventually, a limit will be reached where the debt is unsustainable due to shrinking economies and population.

From the BLS:

Productivity Change in the US Manufacturing Sector Is Near Zero

Productivity Change in the US Non-Farm Business Sector May be +1.5%

III.  The Punchline

Back to our equation for Real Economic Growth.  

a.) Best case is Population growth = -1.0% + Productivity Growth at 1.5%, then real economic growth potential can be as high as +0.5%  (population growth plus productivity growth), This number is very, very low historically speaking.

b) Worst case is Population growth = -1.0% (working age) + productivity growth of 0.2% (for manufacturing), then real economic growth potential might be NEGATIVE -0.8% per annum.

I have a feeling that it's the worse case, given that the US economy remains in "EMERGENCY" crisis mode of zero percent interest rates, exploding government debt growth, emergency money printing of $120 BILLION PER MONTH -- even 13 years after the Great Financial Crisis.  The Fed tried to roll back it's money printing ONE TIME and the financial world fell apart.

If it wasn't for exponential government debt growth, real GDP would actually be NEGATIVE for the past 13 years.  We're literally IN A DEMOGRAPHIC AND FINANCIAL CRISIS right now. CRISIS IS OUR NEW NORMAL.

Without Government Debt-funded Expenditures, Real GDP has been Negative since 2008

 And then there's this:

Govt Debt Has Gone Exponential (now Debt is even higher at 29 TRILLION)

And this:

Federal Reserve Money "Printing" to Fund the Gov't CAN NOT BE STOPPED or EVERYTHING FALLS APART.  (Notice the attempt to SLIGHTLY reduce it's balance sheet in 2018/2019 caused a financial crisis and market turmoil.)

I'll repeat, Government and even Corporate Debt has gone parabolic and the Federal Reserve has shown that "money printing" can not be stopped or the game is over immediately.  But eventually debt blows up at some point.