This is a continuing essay derived from the 1980’s Millennial Files. It begins with a discussion of the four structures of industrialization. The first is the tangible structure of a production superstructure consisting today of factories, mines and power plants. The second structure is tangible infrastructure of roads, railroads, ports, and canals. The third structure is INTANGIBLE– a financial structure that is responsible for allocating and controlling the capital within the economy, it is composed of banks, insurance companies and foundations. And finally a fourth intangible structure – the organizational structure composed of things like corporations, foundations, and non-profits around which everything is organized.    The Great Depression of the 1930’s collapsed the third intangible structure – the financial and monetary structure and the small independent, uninsured and unregulated banks. Today we are faced with the collapse of another intangible structure – the structure

The New Macro Forces that Will Shape the Future   By Kirt Sechooler Country Projected GDP 2030 Rank TRILLION CHINA 64.2  1 INDIA 46.3 2 U.S. 31.0 3 INDONESIA 10.1 4 TURKEY 9.1 5 BRAZIL 8.6 6 EGYPT 8.2 7 RUSSIA 7.9 8 JAPAN 7.2 9 GERMANY 6.9 10   At the end of World War II, with the world devastated by the war, the United States had 50% of the world’s entire GDP.   We may be the highest in per capita GDP, but not in absolute numbers.   There are just two that are members of NATO, number 5 Turkey and number 10 Germany, with the two totaling together 16 trillion.   The three Asian countries total over 120 trilli