Tag: great recession
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Why We Got Ourselves a Trump: 4 Crazy Tricks
Four things came together to give us Donald J. Trump as the all-but-official GOP nominee. First, the so-called cable news channels in the US are, indeed, for-profit businesses, looking for ratings, looking for an edge. Thump was ratings gold for them. He got enormous free publicity in exchange for supplying viewers. He did a very […]
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Bitching about the Obama economy is like telling Captain Sully: "The Hudson was the wrong destination! And why am I all wet!?"
Our economy nearly died, and you are griping about it being too sluggish? We almost had to rename the Great Depression! World War One got renamed. It started out as The Great War, the “war to end all wars”. But a few years later we had an even bigger war, and we had to rename […]