Unprecedented: Behind the '08 ball
This has not been our best decade. The Hook, born only months after 9-11, has grown up in a grimmer time than those giddy, fin de siècle days when the biggest worry for the new year was how Y2K would affect computers. Remember?
It's not like we haven't seen some doozy years already this millennium: war, drought, and Hurricane Katrina. But in a downer decade, 2008 really takes the cake with the three unprecedented Es: economy, energy, and elections.
We're in uncharted territory here, and our heads are still spinning as we watch the economy crumble, taking down venerable institutions like Wachovia and Lehman Brothers– and the UVA endowment– as well as our own retirement funds, if we had them. Haven't we always heard what's good for GM is good for the country?
We don't want to say Depression, but that's what we're thinking.
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