Re: Oldest SF not necessarily most dated?

On May 12, 10:27 pm, "Steven L." >
> Circa 1990, at least one investment newsletter I subscribed to predicted
> that the West vs. Islam would be the new Cold War of the 21st century.
> (And they suggested investing accordingly.)
>
> So SF writers may not have predicted this.  But some of the world's
> savviest long-term investors (Warren Buffett class) did.

There are no other investors in his class.

 Every skilled
> long-term investor has to be a futurist of sorts.
>
> Perhaps that's a weakness of SF in general:  It tends to ignore
> economics.  It was inevitable that the West's insatiable thirst for oil
> was going to make the Middle East Muslims very very wealthy--and with
> wealth comes power.

This is all in John Brunner's "The Jagged Orbit"
which I think was published in 1969.

The story focused on racial divisions in the the US, but the weak
currency as contrasted to the "hard middle eastern currency" and
geopolitical weakness of the US (and western Europe) was evident.

William Hyde