I appreciate your efforts to look. I don't know your sources enough to trust or distrust them, nor know enough about general or specific economic or catallactics to really discuss or debate them.

This topic is generally waaaay out of my area of expertise - but after half a dozen years of delving deep into the deep state and everything related, including touching on economics, politics, history, etc. despite not being an expert with so much exposure I feel certain that the mid 70s was the beginning of the intentional gradual collapse of the USA.

Also worth noting: Yale's Skull & Crossbones were imbedded in China and funded and raised up Mao who killed 100 million Chinese citizens. (Stalin only killed 40 million. Hitler less.) And of course in the 70s Nixon mended fences with China.

I'm more interested in the overall contextualization of things. It's a broader understanding, almost a feeling. I know feels aren't facts, but these days folks can prove almost anything with citations.

I may not be correct. But I offer up my perspective to be considered.