correction... Cronynism is probably hitting 100 year highs.
capitalism if it includes the ability to make the middle class wealth in real terms is probably hitting post ww II lows.
I look around and I see families living in boxes with no land that cost over a million dollars and for many require 2 incomes.... and I just can't believe what inflation 536 crooks, some cronies and a private central bank has done to americas working tax payers.
gdp is a garbage number for our purposes... that includes govt spending and is juiced by the crazy inflation we had had over the last 50 years.
here is a graph a lot of lefties like you ricter... like to contrast with gdp.