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    So if the American Economy turns out to be a computer game

    Which autosaved game should we go back to, and what should we do differently?

    (These are the thoughts that occur when losing a game of Civ 4 while watching financial news updates on cable. Just so you know.)
    "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin
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    Rewind to 2003 and increase interest rates. That's when real estate values in my neighborhood started to go insane. Then in 2004 start lowering spending increases.
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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    • #3
      1783.
      "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by DanS View Post
        Rewind to Nov 1999 and start over.
        Fixed.
        Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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        • #5
          1999, and don't repeal Glass-Steagall.
          <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
          I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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          • #6
            It may well be a game.



            Get past the first couple people...


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            • #7
              Nov. 2000 -- Declare Gore the winner of the Presidential race.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by snoopy369 View Post
                1999, and don't repeal Glass-Steagall.
                You know, I until Googling teh vote just now I hadn't realized what a wide margin the repeal passed by: 90-8 in the Senate! And voting against the repeal? The usual smattering of commies (Wellstone, Feingold, Boxer) and PaleoLiberals (Harkin, Mikulski)...plus Richard Shelby? WTF? Weird, weird, weird.
                "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

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                • #9
                  Yep... the banks had THAT many people in their pockets.

                  Seriously, it was obviously a case of Kuci-itis in the Senate; people saw Glass-Steagall as an outdated law that had no purpose anymore, and was just getting in the way of business. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and we sure did.

                  Now let's see if we do the smart thing, like we did in the 30s, and put back some of the protections like G-S, or if we just say "that was a freak, no chance it'll happen again" and bury our heads in the sand... I'm guessing the latter
                  <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
                  I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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                  • #10
                    The repeal of Glass-Steagall didn't cause the current crisis, so I don't see the point of re-instituting it.

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                    • #11
                      I'd load up the save from the republican primaries. McCain? I mean wtf?
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View Post
                        I'd load up the save from the republican primaries. McCain? I mean wtf?
                        He was your best choice. Anyone else would have been flattened.

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                        • #13
                          Open up the world editor and **** around a bit. At this point, it wouldn't hurt that much.
                          B♭3

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                            To whenever stock prices started to go above real assets´ values. To whenever there started to be more debt than money... Yeah, keep rewinding... rewiiind... a little further... nope, not there yet... fuuuurther. >CLACK< - oh, 4000BC already?

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                            • #15
                              September 10th, 2001?
                              Graffiti in a public toilet
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                              Among the poets we are ****.

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