[weegee]

It was this behavior—the endless willingness of lenders to lend and borrowers to borrow—that kept the consumer economy humming uninterrupted from the early 1990s, straight through the brief recession of 2001

Hmmm. "early 1990s" into 2001. That would be the entirety of the Clinton era. So much for Clinton's economic genius.

[PhatHead]

So Slate Magazine is saying it was the Decade of Fraud? I thought it was only the VRWC who thought that...