What we are witnessing here in slow motion are the final death throes of our capitalistic, free-market economic system.
If left to run its full course a capitalistic economic system is always going to crash and burn eventually. A capitalistic economy like ours depends upon continual and perpetual growth for survival.
Nature teaches us that this is impossible. Nothing can grow forever. Everything has a (life) cycle consisting of a birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age and decline, and finally death.
At present our capitalistic economy is teetering on the brink of these last two stages.
It is going to take a while for the ultimate and final end to come. The denial factor is strong and for as long as practically possible we'll have to exhaust ever "fix" available and limp our broken economy along covered in band-aids.
But eventually the time will have to come where we finally admit this is unworkable.
Capitalism is dead in the U.S.A.
It is time to go back to the drawing board and recalibrate and rebuild a new economic system from the ground up based more in Democratic Socialist ideas.
In the end it will be Bernie Sanders who was right....even though he will probably be long gone.
It's like the late, great Abbey Abbey once said....
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell."