AHC/WI: The Surging Seventies (No Malaise)

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What would the 1970s have been like if the energy crises, political upheaval, and general malaise of the era had been avoided?
 
by the year 2001, orbital Space Stations, like Station V would be in service

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and commercial shuttle service to HEO by commercial carriers
 
the 80s instead would be a decade of decline.

Pretty much, up and down are inevitable in any economic downturn. Naturally things can be at least moderated; like avoiding the war in Vietnam or just limit that at air strikes and logistical support of South Vietnam. For the British, having someone that go for what had done the Tatcher a decade earlier, in the various thread about the Iron Lady the major problem seemed to be that things have been left rot a little too much and in the end something had to be done in OTL fashion...but Old Maggie was totally uncaring and with the sensibility of a panzerdivision in a swarosky crystal shop.

Cheap oil will have ended in any case, and in the end has been a good thing due to the new tech created by necessity. The only way that come in mind to make the situtation more bearable at the beginning, it's a slow build up of the tension regarding Israel and the share of oil revenue and the western nations taking enough clue to prepare enough strategic reserve to go through the first stage of the embargo and start earlier method to save energy and cost.
 
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Pretty much, up and down are inevitable in any economic downturn. Naturally things can be at least moderated; like avoiding the war in Vietnam or just limit that at air strikes and logistical support of South Vietnam. For the British, having someone that go for what had done the Tatcher a decade earlier, in the various thread about the Iron Lady the major problem seemed to be that things have been left rot a little too much and in the end something had to be done in OTL fashion...but Old Maggie was totally uncaring and with the sensibility of a panzerdivision in a swarosky crystal shop.

Cheap oil will have ended in any case, and in the end has been a good thing due to the new tech created by necessity. The only way that come in mind to make the situtation more bearable at the beginning, it's a slow build up of the tension regarding Israel and the share of oil revenue and the western nations taking enough clue to prepare enough strategic reserve to go through the first stage of the embargo and start earlier method to save energy and cost.

Fluctuation are part of the normal business cycle as the market and economy either flourishes or readjusts itself to flourish. It is not necessarily good when there is a recession, but it's optimally like medicine that does not taste good. Stagflation is not natural, not inevitable, and not good. Rising inflation coupled with rising unemployment, rather than one or the other, is something that makes you go cross eyed. Stagflation is very, very, very bad. So recessionary periods in the 1970s would be natural. The OTL stagflation was something different.
 
I kind of think there are more ways of being sick than being well. And that was largely the explanation for stagflation.

And the remedy sure seems to have been Reagan's Keynesianism.
 
Unless the President is deem incapable of holding office, Vice Presidents don't tend to have much power in the administration.

Honestly, it was Carter and Walter Mondale who made the vice presidency as influential and important as it is today, because of what Hubert Humphrey had been through under LBJ. That being sidelined, shut out, powerless and at the mercy of the president. Mondale would not have any of that if he were going to run with Carter.
 
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