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Pretend Prosperity

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If you ever want to know where all the good times are coming from, the answer is simple: they’re borrowed from the future. At this point, WAY in the future, since the good people of Earth have plunged one third of a QUADRILLION dollars in debt. When one has to use figures that seem like the silly made-up terms from a Dr. Seuss children’s book, you know things are bad.