There are no mass market American breweries left and that's a good thing.

[DarkCloud]

You really don't want us to do that. Our debt fueled spending is what keeps the world working.

True to some degree. But what happens when the world wants to cash out. What happens when another consumer entity becomes larger than the US?

It's not likely to happen for 5, 10 years, but sometime after 2015 there could be interesting changes in the world economic situation if the US can't maintain an innovation lead and remain fiscally responsible.

Is there a chance the US could be trapped in a cycle of debt crisis like the Latin American countries endured in the 1980s?

I leave that question up to those better educated in economics to decide.

[Asher]

Originally posted by LordShiva
MICROBREWS

SAN DIEGO!!

QFT. Best post in this thread.