How could have our economy in real terms doubled in the last 20 years? I thought the WTO and NAFTA ruined our economy.
By quadrupling our National Debt?
Clearly, it hasn't since we are losing the ability to sustain real, industrial-strength muscles. The country is wasting away. And you get a little sense of what is happening with inflation, just looking at the numbers from above, just using "2000" dollars. Think what the real comparison would be using 1986 dollars.