Speech
Preamble
Welcome and Recap
Now celebrating with food and drink
Tired but satisfied, and some are a little tipsy.
Three full days of informative presentations
Took care of business
Spent time among friends
More than friends. 
Heroes
We don't see our heroism
Other heroes airbrushed in books
We see our warts and all
What we are here to do is none the less heroic
People who "get it" and care
Why I am your banquet speaker
Discussions at ex-com
Good presentations that were poor banquet speeches.
In my humble opinion
Slows the presentation
Intelligent audience can tell fact from opinion
Never had a humble opinion
Introduction
Meaning of "Great Realignment"
Most people think I'm talking about a coming event.
Yes, but that is not all of it
Primarily about a process
Analogy from life
birth and death are events
The process consists of maturing and declining
Empires and economic systems also are born, mature, deline and die.
Henry George's Economic cycle
Last book of P&P
Brilliant
Henry George's cycle phases
Freedom and Justice
Prosperity
Wealth
Power
Injustice
Tyranny
Decline
Collapse
Poverty
Ravi Batra's Economic Cycle
Written in "Great Depression of 1990"
There was a recession
It wasn't "the big one."
The big one is just beginning
Batra's cycle phases: producers, acquisitors, warriors
Producers (when there is little wealth)
Littlle to acquire
Nothing to fight over