Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers was published in 1950s America, a time when the United States had emerged victorious from the second world war. Respect for authority and deference to the common good had demonstrated results to a battered nation still scarred by the Great Depression, and Robert A. Heinlein’s book depicts a world much like that of…

Collapse – Argentina to the United States

In 1998 Argentina slipped into an economic depression, set off by a wave of financial shocks starting in Asia and Russia, culminating in a debt default and currency devaluation in 2001. As the subsequent banking crisis led to freezes on deposits and companies to lay off employees, people began to riot, and normal people like…