Happy Halloween! America’s been having fun dissecting and transplanting body parts onto Adam Smith theories since 1776, molding a Frankenstein monster into an economy for narcissist billionaires. It worked for a while. Now its a serial killer on a rampage, turning against the soul of the nation that gave it birth, into a coliseum for political, economic and cultural zombies tearing each other apart.

Cue music. Dense fog rolls in. The drumbeat of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” pounding, fills the graveyard of economic horrors draining America’s GDP of its lifeblood: “Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of blood.” The crypts in Adam Smith’s mausoleum prepare to receive the remains of a Frankenstein economy. Vampires rise in the dark, now destroying themselves from within, taking the global economy down with it. Listen to the beat, feel the lust for the dark evil of economic blood:

“They’re out to get you ... No one’s gonna save you ... from the beast about to strike ... The foulest stench’s in the air ... The funk of forty thousand years ... Grizzly ghouls from every tomb ... are closing in to seal your doom ... You fight to stay alive ... Your body starts to shiver ... No mere mortal can resist ... the evil of the Thriller.”

Halloween once was the family favorite across America, loads of fun. But this year, it seems zombies, ghouls, vampires all de-materializing, draining all the bloody spirit out of Halloween. America’s Frankenstein economy is in line with Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson predictions in “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”: Nations grow. Wealth concentrates at the top. The elite manipulate to protect their wealth. They close doors that got them to the top. Economies collapse. Nations fail.

This Halloween that same pattern is accelerating across America as wealth rapidly concentrates at the top, GDP growth keeps declining. This time, however, the door is also closing on entrenched zombie capitalists as the inequality gap widens. They are losing the battle to control government, threatening insiders, setting up revolutions. Here are seven signs of this classic pattern:

1. Frankenstein economics is a mausoleum for trickle-down capitalism

This theory that policies that help the rich get richer will “ultimately help everybody,” has been with us a long time. Foreign Policy says it was coined by the great urban philosopher Will Rogers when he commented on Herbert Hoover’s 1928 tax cuts: “The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy,” but the president didn’t “know that money trickles up.”

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, zombie capitalists have turned trickle-up into a flood. Forbes Global Billionaires list rocketed from 322 in 2000 to 1,826 in 2015. By 2099 Credit Suisse predicts 11 trillionaires. But for the rest of the world, capitalism is a cancer: A billion live on less than two dollars a day. And as global population explodes to 10 billion by 2050, the widening inequality gap will trigger revolutions, pandemics, starvation, an overheated planet. Trillionaires? Or GDP below 1% by 2099?

2. Frankenstein economy is now America’s new Invisible Hand

Adam Smith was a moral philosopher, believed the Invisible Hand of a divine power would act to the benefit of all. Unfortunately, today’s capitalists took away control of the Invisible Hand, transformed it into a blood-sucking vampire, into “mutant capitalism” as Jack Bogle calls it, an egocentric materialism with no moral compass that justifies America’s obsession with celebrity power and personal wealth.

Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz warned of this new “Frankenstein economy” mythology. Lacking any scientific proof of their own ideologies, insiders use computer technology, math and physics to justify their ideological biases, dismissing the economic impact of climate change, research on the predictably irrational, often evil behavior of all humans.

As a result, today’s capitalists often become climate deniers, ignore social issues, focusing instead on justifying the self-serving behavior of billionaires maximizing profits, accumulating massive wealth, dangerously widening the inequality gap. They pretend their myth-based economy works, even as they drain our GDP’s soul of blood.

3. Frankenstein capitalism is trapped in a Myth of Perpetual Growth

Capitalism’s Frankenstein economics is failing America: by relying on its core Myth of Perpetual Growth. They assume infinite growth of resources and opportunities for profits, income and wealth. Ad infinitum. Though rich and brilliant, American capitalists have a childlike, irrational conviction that they can indefinitely produce, mine, grow, fish, dump and extract resources from the planet’s limited supply, without ever paying a steep price or planning for the day the planet’s resources are exhausted. Hence their bizarre opposition to all carbon pollution-taxation and regulation.

4. Frankenstein capitalists have short-term-thinking brains

Wall Street bankers, corporate insiders, and other capitalists tend to focus on today’s stock prices, quarterly earnings, annual bonuses. Most of these Frankenstein capitalists are alpha-males, aggressive short-term thinkers, says Jeremy Grantham, while America’s next generation needs new leaders for 2050 with a “historical perspective.” But unfortunately our leaders have grown into “an army of left-brained immediate doers” which “guarantees” they “will always to miss” the next big one.

5. Frankenstein capitalism has a conservative GOP political bias

Stiglitz warns that today’s zombies all have a definite conservative bias on political issues. Economic courses taught at Harvard, for example, use a textbook written by a former member of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors that pushes “a particular ideological view that markets work perfectly.”

Moreover, they tend to see environmental issues as liberal myths, and back GOP politicians committed to climate-science denialism. And yet, politically biased economic theories, whether conservative or liberal, are dangerous to America’s future. Future leaders need to be flexible, open to compromise, making decisions on broader public policies, not, for example, locked on some rigid version of Adam Smith’s theories. Time to bury that corpse.

6. Frankenstein capitalism is accelerating disasters, famine, pandemics

Flash forward: The planet is incapable of feeding the 10 billion people projected on Earth by 2050, warns Jeremy Grantham, whose firm manages over $120 billion. And yet, most economists today work for banks and businesses that ignore demographics, except as a source of consumer marketing data, trapped in a self-destructive climate-science-denial bubble.

Snap out of it, reread “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” See why this kind of thinking will require a disaster of epic proportions, a World War III, worldwide famine or global pandemic to shock the Frankenstein capitalist mind-set, awaken their conscience, revive the original moral core of Adam Smith’s economic soul.

7. Frankenstein economy trapped between uncompromising ideologies

Today the “Atlas Shrugged” ideology of Ayn Rand is the core of Frankenstein economics, having replaced Adam Smith’s original capitalism. It is now in a war to the death with liberalism. This extremism is now the conventional wisdom of conservative politicians: “When I say ‘capitalism,’ I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism.” It is “the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible.” Compromise is impossible.

Today Rand’s ideology is not only deeply embedded in conservative economic thought, it has emerged as a conspiracy of a Super Rich elite and the political right, in a dangerous spiral repetition of the historical patterns Acemoglu and Robinson warn we are closing the door to America’s future, setting up the collapse of our economy and our nation’s failure.

Happy Halloween, the good news is that this war will soon come to a predictably irrational end: By the 2020 presidential election when Clinton is reelected. By then the GOP will have been looking at 16 long years out of the presidency.

Plus by 2020, the grim realities of global warming will force Big Oil and the worldwide fossil-fuel industry to wake up and accept the need for controlling global warming. And finally, that will break the conspiracy trapping GOP politicians like Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Marco Rubio, and even Sen. James Inhofe in the mythic greed of climate-science denialism.

Now isn’t that a truly scary thought for Frankenstein capitalists on this wonderful Happy Halloween?