I soon stopped reading for the same reason. However, US collapse is highly likely, if only because every time we kick the can down the road on the national debt

I soon stopped reading for the same reason. However, US collapse is highly likely, if only because every time we kick the can down the road on the national debt we accelerate the debt growth. We certainly won't be paying it back, but when we inevitably can't borrow the ever greater amounts needed to keep kicking the can down the road, pain will be felt by most. I don't think we'll go back to the stone age. More likely we'll be a third-world country (with nukes), like Pakistan.