I can't put my finger on it but I have always thought there was something fishy about the 90s economy. The market seemed so incredibly high...too high. Credit, which in previous years was not always easy to get, became available to high risk canidates. It seemed like anybody could get credit. I heard that corporate debt was floating the economy. Was I imagining things or did they halt trading everytime the market started to tank during a session? It didn't seem right. There was no smoking gun though. Maybe this is it and the chickens have come home to roost. Or maybe I just have old fashioned ideas about money... keep it under your pit bull's doghouse.
Corporate leaders in the 1990s watched as both Clintons repeatedly broke the law, and skated. Several of these corporate types stupidly thought that they could get away with it too, not understanding that only the Clintons deserve a corrupt Justice Dept committed to protecting them.
The Clintons encouraged this corporate lawlessness and largess, because they knew that it insulated them further from legal accountability. Further, as business is repudiated by the American people, socialism would gain hold even faster in America. Another win-win for the Clinton slime.