It’s 2045.
The S&P 500 just touched 6144 again.
We made it back, boys.
But the world is different now.
The great crash of 2025 wiped out $17 trillion in market cap. Retirements evaporated. Boomers un-retired. Everyone works now. Forever. Because hey, we brought all the manufacturing jobs back!!!!!!
U.S. brought manufacturing back. Steel, semiconductors, textiles—hell, even toasters are “Made in America” again.
But they cost four times as much. Inflation never really went away. Interest rates stayed high for years to “tame inflation” but all it did was tame hope. BRRRR machine stopped working after they ran out of printer inks made in China.
Mortgage rates are still above 8%.
401(k)s are flat. American dream now: never retire, never die, keep the GDP alive.
But hey, we made it back!!!!