John Wilkes Booth

the 2000 bust was the dotcom bubble... it's just not true that the effect of the 90's bubble ended here

the subprime mortgage crisis that eventually helped bring down the 2008 economy largely consisted of homes that were sold in the 90's... and many of the irresponsible trading practices that helped fuel the post-2000 bubble were basically made legal by the clinton administration in the late 90's when they eliminated the barrier between commercial and investment banks

William_the_Bloody

I mention Clinton's neo liberal policies towards banking legislation that helped bring about sub prime mortgage crisis.

I had taken events into account, though I forgot about 911 & the dotcom bubble upon Bush's arrival, but both Presidents did have 8 years to turn things around, in which it looks like Obama may have.

GDP growth for the last quarter grew at 3.9%, good news for Biden...if he decides to run.

The Batlord

I don't really put much stock in the rise in employment. Most of it seems to be low-level and part-time bull****, like fast food and Walmart, rather than anything that might actually revitalize the American economy in any meaningful way.

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Chula Vista

Welcome back.

Look at the profiles of the last dozen or so spree shooters. Young, white, (the Virgina Tech guy being an exception) suburban type males. Mostly from white collar families. Seriously, just how easy do you think it would be for one of these kids to wander into the crime riddled areas of downtown and find someone willing to sell them an illegal gun? They'd probably get their asses kicked or even shot themselves instead.

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William_the_Bloody

Wow! power to the people! Bernie Sanders leads in fund raising.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bernie...55430566.html#

LoathsomePete

So who else burst out laughing when Jim Webb answered the "who is your biggest political enemy?" question?

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Trollheart

I did! A pathetically transparent ploy to say "OOh! OOH! I was a soldier! Vote for me!" In what way is an enemy soldier a political enemy? His whinging about how little time he was getting to speak wore old very quickly. He also didn't smile much. I think he did himself more harm than good.

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Chula Vista

Who?

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Trollheart

Is that an ironic, sarcastic "who?" or do you really not know?

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Chula Vista

The Democratic field:

Bernie, Hillary, and blah blah blah blah...........

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”