Where have you been for the last 11 years? Anyone who has followed the economy (or just looks at a
graph of the dow jones) knows that we had been in a recession for 2 years prior to sept. 11 2001. The economy then crashed hard and stayed that way for 2 more years until We went to war in Iraq and afghanistan. The war production along with the housing bubble propped up the economy and created misleading growth that lead to a massive over-valuation. Over-valuation is not a robust economy, it is a short term run up to a dead man's drop, which we have seen over the last year and a half.