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This graph discounts one thing, using massive deficit spending to accomplish this and have no real infrastructure improvements at the end will leave a debt-hole which will become impossible to service. The price for this profligacy will likely be collapse.

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This is merely the government getting caught holding somebody else's bag.

Financiers? Investors? Irresponsible American consumers?

D: All of the above.

"Main Street" didnt cause this. Sure you could blame the military industrial complex or the banking cabal and banking oligarchy, but propping up too big to fail institutions (called the Bernanke put) incentivizes failure.

More to come on that.

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