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How loyal are NHL'ers?
Imagine the US economy/$ crashed, & it's no longer the world's reserve currency? Brit Central banker Mark Carney suggested this, just after the G7 debacle in France.
Say the Russian/Chinese currencies went ballistic..would pursuit of Lord Stanley still mean as much?
How many hired guns(w/ a Jagr spirit) run off in pursuit of whatever currency runs the whole show?
They've suggested SOME currencies might even be backed by gold, someday.
NHL would be affected by world economics more than any of the 4 major NA'n sports, I'd wager.
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@luckylager That's the thing. None of this was or ever is planned. History shows that empires most often slowly decline then others eventually pop up to take it's place. This is just history repeating itself. The US is in the middle of it's slow decline as an empire.
China isn't building up it's armed forces to just retake the small island of Taiwan, they're building them up so it can jockey into position and eventually pass by the US in decline on it's way up.
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SF1, To make this Stat U about my 'preferences' would take this back to the 70's! Haven't admired much about the western world over the past 3, 4 decades. Gawd only knows what the alternatives were(?), but as they say.."Mistakes were made."
Is this some gilded age 1920's bubble-existence, now? Should we all go back & reread "The Great Gadsby"? Will we check the headlines to soon discover a 1929 CRASH! headlines, has finally arrived? I'm hearing more & more(some I quite respect) talkin' heads suggest it.
Back in '08 they kicked the can down the road..everybody knows. You think there's Decades(?!) left for this global shell game. Hmm..colour me skeptical.
Gotta confess, I'm mighty curious to see how pro athletes conduct their biz/career choices if ever the SHTF!
@luckylager The Missus is pestering(Dagwood/Blondie Sunday thing), but I'd like to respond to your interesting comment..in the pipeline
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