> [from the WSJ's Real Time Economics - RAND study at:
> <http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2009/RAND_OP275.pdf>.]
>
> Study: Recession Not Game Changer for International Politics
>
> Economists aren't the only ones scrambling to predict what the world
> will look like after the recession. Political pundits are also
> squinting too see into the future - their question: Will the global
> economic meltdown change the game in international politics?
>
> "Not much," says a new RAND Corp. study. The U.S. will continue to be
> the world's superpower and policeman, capitalism the most popular
> economic recipe, and, as the rhetorical squabbles born in the heat of
> the crisis quiet down, old friends will stay friends and foes remain
> foes, argued Robert D. Blackwill.
I have a feeling one day this will be looked back on as our era's "stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
SA