They gave Britain a run for their money before they started stealing gold.
We were not rapidly going downhill before Reagan and were innovating rapidly during all that period you named.
Yeah right. Productivity was going way down. Japan was gaining on us so fast they began buying up our country's real estate. Our cars were falling apart. Bad economic policy is bad for business, and what's bad for business is bad for innovation.
Where do you get the idea that Spain ever exported much of anything? It didn't and was never an economic power.
The indusrtial revolution passed them by because they were too busy stealing gold to worry about actually learning industry.
Your "lurch" comment lurches into insensibility. I have no idea what you mean.
Britain lurched ahead of Spain by industrializing to get Spain's gold.
How do foreigners get rich off the Fed.?
By owning the banks that make out money. Why would private banks do the Fed's work if they weren't making a buck or two?
How do Germans give us our money?
The Fed's reserve is reserved in a collection of private banks in Europe.
We have a trade deficit with them so we are sending them our money not the other way around. Same with the Japanese.
I'm talking about the "reserve" in the Federal Reserve.
Miners now are women too and those jobs are still hideously hard and dangerous.
Women are Marines too and it gets hideously hard and dangerous to be a Marine.
What the Marines have to do with this is beyond me but I am not surprised they were dragged into your posting.
You seem to think harder jobs make people miserable, I think it makes them proud. Hideously hard. American gold mines? I think you're overdoing it a little, aren't you?