China and the U.S. share two central traits: a financial-command-economy and an addiction to cheap, easy money to prop up bubbles that serve the status quo.

Despite the many obvious differences between the Chinese and American systems of governance and "capitalism," there are two key similarities. We might phrase this thusly: China's leadership has empowered specific strains of capitalism to serve the party's socialist goals, while the American leadership has socialized the mortgage/housing/banking sectors to serve its predatory-capitalist Masters (the financial-rentier Power Elite).

One of the key threads in my analysis is the divergence/ convergence of the interests of the Elites and general public. When the interests of the Elites and the public are roughly parallel/convergent, then prosperity--as measured by increasing income equality--tends to rise. (Or put another way: income inequality falls.)