Because our economy is a Potemkin Village;
Greensboro's Press creates and disseminates "Potemkin villages" through print and television
http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/10/greensboros-press-creates-and.html
"The world is bankrupt after thirty years of borrowing from the future to throw a party in the present, and the authorities can’t acknowledge that."
http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-world-is-bankrupt-after-thirty.html
Price–sales ratio hits all time high = Biggest bubble in the history of bubbles, not that it matters
http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/07/pricesales-ratio-hits-all-time-high.html