ok, but during dot.com a stock opened at 10 and closed at 40 ob every single day The only thing people cared about back then was getting filled.
But if the US doesn't introduce NIRP unlike most of the other developed countries then it is to expect that the economies of other countries will grow faster than the US economy, because more money gets invested into the real economy in those other countries, simply caused (or forced) by the NIRP.
I expect new discoveries in space science and space technology will give a big boost to the world economy. Ie. finding an inhabited planet or an earthlike planet, and new propulsion technologies to make mankind a space voyager en mass.
The 90ies have been a golden era (due to the advent of the www and commercialising the Internet), just upto the crash of the dot-com bubble in 2000.
That's kind of obvious and evident, no disputing that -- but everything has cycles, and records were meant to be broken. There's always money to be made in the markets. 80's excess is definitely over. and 90's craziness is over too. -- but that's not to say the Entire Game...is over.
The only "golden" years anyone should care about are their own. Some make the most $ during the worst markets.