Vì sao nước Mỹ có thể sụp đổ?

vì chính sách toàn cầu hóa và nới lỏng các đạo luật chống độc quyền từ thời clinton, khiến các tập đoàn mỹ m&a điên loạn, tập trung hóa, mỗi ngành chỉ còn vài ba gã khổng lồ chiếm hết thị phần, chẳng sản xuất gì (vì outsource hết sang china), tạo lợi nhuận chỉ bằng cách tận dụng quyền lực độc quyền (ép nhà cung cấp, tăng giá khách hàng, tránh thuế, các mối quan hệ chính trị...) mà thôi... (sách năm 2006)
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...According to Lynn’s groundbreaking book End of the Line, the essential problem is a basic

shift in the way that American multinationals operate. In the 1980s, the competitive manufacturing threat from Japan led most large companies to eliminate waste in their production facilities. As a result, they stopped keeping spare parts on hand. Eventually, companies began outsourcing production itself, as profits came increasingly from extractive monopolistic power over an economic system. Walmart is an important example; its profits come from the power it can exert on its suppliers, telling them what to make and how to make it, while the company itself functions as a giant autocratic marketplace and trading operation. Increasingly, this is the model of success in our global economy. Boeing, Cisco, Apple—all of them rely on their power over an ecosystem of production facilities halfway around the world. They have become rent extractive profit-machines, which is a relatively new phenomenon.

It was in the 1990s that American multinationals, spurred by government policy, began outsourcing operations to China. At the same time, the Clinton administration steadily relaxed antitrust enforcement, leading to massive corporate consolidation and the creation of the virtual firm. By the early parts of the last decade, the ideal American multinational made its profits by using its market power to gut labor and supply prices and by using its political power to eliminate taxation. All of this turned giant American institutions against making things.

...US corporate leaders now see the idea of making things as a cost of doing business, one best left to others. What has happened as a result is that much of the production for critical products and services that make our economy run is constructed by a patchwork global network of suppliers all over the world in unstable regions, over which we have very little control. An accident or political problem in any number of countries may deny us not just iPhones but food, medicine or critical machinery.

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