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Originally Posted by alexamenos
yet...we are not yet talking about the Great Depression 2.0....
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Not to mention that we're living in a different world now than we were then - joblessness is only part of the equation...
The first time around, most of the world's economic powers were recovering from WWI, so nobody really had the means to challenge our international standing... This time around, there's about a half-dozen countries waiting to pounce on the #1 spot - if we slip, we fall...