The United States economy is very difficult to understand. It is so difficult because we cannot predict what will happen in the next century, the next decade, or even what will happen tomorrow. Our economy hasn’t been through a depression, since the Great Depression in the 1930’s. We have been anticipating another depression for quite a while, the last few decades, in fact. But our economy has been lucky enough to stay away from such a horrible thing. Predicting the way our economy will change is very similar to predicting the future ....