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"A decade after the global financial crisis tipped the United States into a recession..."

should read:

A decade after the global financial cluster f#ck - orchestrated by irresponsibility and negligence on the past of the United States government, and its puppet master, Wall Street - politely refereed to as a recession..."



That also pushed most of the western world and some other financial hubs into meltdown too! This doesn’t just affect the USA :(


My point was, the USA was the means and the ends, not just the ends. The USA was the perp, not the victim.

The NYT's wording attempts to rewrite history, badly. This is journalism?


I wasn’t disagreeing with ya, just expanding on your point. The quote and article seemed to ignore the world wide impact 2007 had




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