 The actual founding was laid even earlier in the Clinton administration people are blaming 2008 crisis for the current anti establishment sentiment are being myopic. The trade deals and removal of banking restrictions supercharged the Us economy and US reaped the benefits for the decade after but that is also the point that wealth started shifting to the top from the middle class and it has kept going on till the middle class has started to revolt.
  An open world market is good in theory but can really work only if the laws in all countries are the same. Today we get cheap stuff produced from third world countries because those countries do not have the same worker protections etc available.
   Bush and Republican spending trillions on wars instead of spending that money at home on infrastructure has made things worse.