[ppaul]

Decade of greed? Well, the '90's deserves that. That's when so many made millions of paper profits in the dot.coms and gas-guzzling SUVs were the rage.

Remember, it was the Reagan policies, highlighted by his speech in Berlin, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" that brought down the Berlin Wall and communism, bringing the fresh air of freedom to millions who were oppressed behind the Iron Curtain for most of the 20th Century.

How's that for starters?

[Ratatoskr]

Decade of greed? Well, the '90's deserves that.

Good start. How come when we have economic good times and Republicans are in office, it's greed but when we have economic good times and Democrats are in office it's prosperity?

In the eighties, the corporate CEO made, on average, 45 times what the guy on the assembly line made. In the nineties, it was over 400 times. (I wish I could remember the source for that). Whereas the "greed" of the eighties tended to float all boats, the "prosperity" of the nineties tended to float a handful of handmade teak yachts.

[gumbo]

Decade of greed? Well, the '90's deserves that.>

I think it started around 1993 when Hillary "Cattle Futures" Clinton and Bill "Whitewater" Clinton took office.

And ended, oh, about January 2001, right after the Sleazeballs-in-Chief departed with the White House furniture.