[Iron Munro]

This would have sounded reasonable before the elections of 2008 and 2012.

[Psalm 144]

Thank you for posting this fascinating article. Worth reading several times, and pondering at length.

[Vigilanteman]

[Reagan] said to Gorbachev, “What’s the difference between a communist and a scientist?” “I don’t know,” responded Gorbachev. Reagan smiled and said, “A scientist would have tried it out on rats first.” I think that’s when we won the Cold War, when Gorbachev realized he wasn’t sitting across from the idiot he’d been told he would be dealing with.

A few years ago, I read a book called Washington Station by a former KGB spy who was given that assignment during the Reagan years. Another signal to the Soviets that they had been beat is when they reviewed blueprints recovered from the trash bins of defense and intelligence agencies in Washington showing technology that they weren't even capable of copying.

Today, the enemy doesn't even have to employ third world cleaning people to recover these blueprints from Washington trashcans. A simple call to one of Obama's handlers will get them delivered.

[rockinqsranch]

bflr

[Albion Wilde]

Kind of ironic, isn’t it? The article predicts a booming, world-wide middle class. Meanwhile Obama is doing everything he can to abolish the middle class and all its values so he can manipulate envy, greed and covetousness. I guess he’d better pedal faster.

[Albion Wilde]

Kind of ironic, isn’t it? The article predicts a booming, world-wide middle class. Meanwhile Obama is doing everything he can to abolish the middle class and all its values so he can manipulate envy, greed and covetousness. I guess he’d better pedal faster.

[DJ Taylor]

"Supersonic boom? Perhaps, but geographically lumpy and chronologically lumpy and, given recent events, not centered in the United States."

As our country no longer produces anything but welfare babies, we have nothing to offer this coming "Supersonic boom."

[Olog-hai]

Shame that the fall of the USSR is still being touted as “communism’s demise” when it was anything but. Russia is currently being ruled by a man who believes that the fall of the USSR was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century, and he is working fast to recreate the USSR albeit in his own image (he’s currently calling it the Eurasian Union). Red China took on the mantle of communism after the USSR fell, with the help of US liberals, and the European Union continued in its quest to build equally-totalitarian social “democracy”. And of course, Islamic socialism (based on Nazism) was allowed to metastasize into the monster it is today. No, this fight is not over by a long shot, and there are traitors to the USA’s version of republicanism aplenty.

[Truth29]

"However, human nature has not been abolished. The boom won’t happen everywhere; it will happen in the parts of the world which embrace freedom, and it won’t come easily. Supersonic boom? Perhaps, but geographically lumpy and chronologically lumpy and, given recent events, not centered in the United States.

The author is certainly right about this part, particularly with what is happening to the US under Obama's oppression.

[henkster]

Thanks for the article. I enjoyed reading Meyer’s historical perspective. I also agree that we are watching the growing wave of a world-wide economic boom, where the world will achieve a level of global prosperity never previously experienced. If you are a Formula 1 racing fan as I am, you see this in the world of auto racing. F1 is staging events in places like Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Abu Dhabi & Shanghai, that 50 years ago were hell holes. Today they are gleaming modern cities. In fact, looking at them and comparing them to our democrat controlled cesspits, I think they’ve passed us by.

And that’s one of the ironies of the article. As more and more people escape poverty globally, in America more and more people slip into its chains. We are not as competitive as we once were by virtually every important yardstick. And because we are so dysfunctional, we are likely to let this opportunity pass us by. I deliberatly chose the word “watching” in the paragraph above, instead of “creating.”

The other irony of the article is that it was Reagan’s victory in the Cold War that created the conditions for this world-wide boom.

[mnehring]

Btt

[onona]

None of his books are at my public library, or in it’s network system.

The reviews on amazon are decidedly mixed.

For what all that’s worth.

[wtc911]

I’m not sure I agree with everything Herb Meyer said in our discussion, which is why I challenged him a little bit on his optimism about the pace, or even the possibility, of Islam’s reconciliation with modernity.

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Indonesia (250 million) and Malaysia (30 million) are two large 'muslim' countries that are doing just fine reconciling islam and the modern world.

[pgkdan]

bump!

[catfish1957]

Was this before or after we were $17T in debt?

[Cyber Liberty]

The first rule of organizations is that first-rate executives hire first-rate executives. President Reagan was a first-rate executive and he brought in a varsity team: Bill Casey, at the CIA, Cap Weinberger at defense, Jeanne Kirkpatrick at UN and they hired first rate executives themselves.

{sigh} There were giants in those days.

[Sherman Logan]

When I see a chief executive who’s buried in paperwork at ten o’clock every night, that guy doesn’t have a grip on it. The CEO should be sitting there with his feet up on the desk thinking, figuring out strategically what to do next.

I once saw this idea explained as the difference between officers and noncoms in the military.

It's the noncom's job to implement decisions that have been made, it's the officer's job to decide what needs to be done next.

If the officer is micro-managing the implementation of decisions he's already made, he can't do the job he really needs to do.

[ScottinVA]

The boom won’t happen everywhere; it will happen in the parts of the world which embrace freedom

Right... This is one the USA will be sitting out... freedom isn't "in" anymore.

[SaraJohnson]

Great interview! Thanks.

[LucianOfSamasota]

Until we asked ‘can the Soviet Economy be sustained?’, nobody was looking in that direction.

Are the Russians looking in this direction concerning the US?