The biggest economic problem is money in politics. To be specific, non-aggregate, large donations from very wealthy individuals and their corporations.

No matter what politics you like, the greed of many in the 1% is outweighing the well-being of the 99%”.

You can talk about lazy people on welfare or illegal immigrants, or Obama playing golf until you turn blue, or red, or talk about whomever you don’t like ruining the country, but those are tiny little issues compared with the fact that the rich are getting richer while the common people are getting poorer, and nobody is going to change that until every country in the world is ground to dust and the rich have it all, unless we the people vote against the interests of the ultra-rich.

We’ve had so much sand and wool thrown in our eyes by the 1% that Americans (and Brits) wouldn’t know who to vote for if it bit us. Only solution is to go look on the internet for what candidates and parties the rest of the world already knows are the good guys.

No surprise we’ve been brainwashed to not want to listen to the rest of the world.

Keep your eyeballs glued to those store shelves and see what starts disappearing first. Smaller selection and higher prices isn’t always about consumer demand. Sometimes it’s about supply, or lack of it.

Saturation of the economy and Globalism.

During 1970′s countries like USA Germany and Japan opened their economy to give birth to globalization because they beleived that they had the unmatched technological and intellectual advancement(which they were right).
However with the communication growth specially in the past 2 decades, has bought so much knowledge and expertise in the third world,that they no more need US.

Of course, the curent socialist government is doing all it can to destroy our free economy. And the fed is useless and should be abolished along with the health care plan and the current tax system. One can only pray!