Niall Ferguson explaining collapse

  Niall Ferguson Video Lecture - "Empires On The Verge Of Chaos"from zero hedge by Tyler Durden

 Throughout history the rise and fall of empires isn't slow or cyclical, as we like to think, but arrhythmic...it mostly happens very, very suddenly. America is a superpower on the edge of chaos, according to economic historian and author Niall Ferguson. U.S. debt levels, he says, and its unwillingness to address the problem, has put it in the same category as other great empires which have collapsed throughout the ages.  If you know him you can skip the introduction.

01.    Introduction    09 min 09 sec02.    Niall Ferguson Opening Remarks    01 min 40 sec03.    Historical Cycles of Empire Decline    07 min 07 sec04.    Complexity Theory    08 min 20 sec05.    Implications for the United States    06 min 22 sec06.    Interest Payments as a Share of US Revenue    01 min 56 sec07.    Failure of Perception    02 min 43 sec08.    Debt Payment Overtaking Defense Spending    06 min 58 sec09.    Q1: Healthcare Reform    04 min 10 sec10.    Q2: China's Military Sustainability    02 min 38 sec11.    Q3: Gold Investing    01 min 24 sec12.    Q4: Political Stability of China    02 min 42 sec13.    Q5: Children Teaching You About Debt / Radical Islam    03 min 57 sec14.    Q6: Advice to Obama    02 min 40 sec15.    Q7: Limits of Keynesian Stimulus    03 min 46 sec16.    Q8: Better Leadership in the West    03 min 27 sec17.    Q9: Fear of Hyperinflation    05 min 09 sech/t asymptotix