I don't know that history repeats itself so much as historians repeat each other.

There are always fluctuations in world money prices. The US is struggling with its economy. No question about that. There have been years of debt and market manipulation; that has wounded the so-called middle class and its ability to absorb the punishment on behalf of the waelthy. The bubble is very near breaking, and we will see a Depression to rival that of the early 1980s. That's what happens when crooks run countries.