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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by rmrm on Friday August 05, 2011 @10:12PM (#2852693)
WWII and the rampup was still a public works project.

What really turned the economy for good imo was not WWII but the result of WWII -- all of our competitors on the international stage having large parts of their population and infrastructure destroyed. A few year grace period while the rest of the world rebuilt turned into 50 years of global corporate hegemony.

Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by dmm on Saturday August 06, 2011 @07:40PM (#2855197)
And the USD became the world's reserve currency.