Really about 2005-2007
I was shouting this to folks around me.
W was taking us into disaster with nation-building which ultimately failed.
My idiot boss (at that time) thought it was all cyclical.
2008 was far worse than I imagined.
But it will look mild compared to what is coming IMHO.
I am afraid you are right. What is coming is not beyond what we imagine, it is beyond what we currently can imagine.
Frankly, I barely noticed the economic recession in 2008. Didn’t have a house and little debt. Maybe it made a difference in wealth accumulation, but really wasn’t concentrating on that then.