"Economic at the Brink" is currently the most incisive work on the fundamental developments in the global economy in the 21st century. Paul Craig Roberts traces the path to the collapse of the economies of the Western world and reveals critical decisions. The America we knew in the second half of the 20th century no longer exists. The United States has squandered its economic and political future for the foreseeable future. The deindustrialized US economy is among the biggest losers of globalization to date. At the same time, the domestic political landscape of the United States is undergoing a fundamental transformation. In just a few years, essential basic rights that the Constitution had guaranteed for more than 200 years have been systematically dismantled. Now Europeans are following the Americans down the same path and ending their sovereignty.