The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

by Peter Zeihan

Capital availability is a function of demographics. The Boomer generation’s mass retirement in the 2020s is to our detriment. They are taking their money with them. But by 2040, the youngest Millennials will be in their forties, and their money will have made the system flush once more.

Between now and 2040, America’s reindustrialization will be complete. Mexican-American linkages will prove to be far tighter and far more consequential than anything the United States ever achieved with its northern neighbor.

Also by 2040, the agricultural community will have worked all the kinks out of precision farming techniques. A mix of digital, genetic, automation, and engineering advances will have enabled American farmers to triple their caloric output.