2076 or Bust: What will the US and world look like on America's Tricentennial?

Goldman Sachs sees both China's and India's economy overtaking America's

The American Tricentennial star symbol appears in the 1979 film Alien

First a caveat: Everything in this essay assumes a) the United States doesn’t descend in Civil War 2.0, b) Vladimir Putin doesn’t press The Button, and c) there’s no reason for fresh supervolcano concerns (you people know who you are) over recent news that there’s more magma below the …