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cieldumort in the_recession

Know A Downturn! Quiz You Edition! ;)

May 01, 2009 03:43

TIME:
Gloomy Holidays--and Worse AheadNot for many years has a Christmas season begun with so many tidings of spreading discomfort and lack of joy about the U.S. economy. Already racked by a devastating... inflation, the nation is now also plunging deeper into a recession that seems sure to be the longest and could be the most severe since World ( Read more... )

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Comments 4

capthek May 1 2009, 11:48:41 UTC

I guessed 81 because of the inflation, but the problems in the auto industry could have been earlier I suppose because the oil shocks started before 81 and yet 74 didn't feel right.

cieldumort May 1 2009, 14:59:43 UTC

Of course, we had some inflation basically in all of the years listed up there (Some years worse than others).

It's a gotcha poll ;)

capthek May 1 2009, 18:56:15 UTC

Gotcha? You mean no answer?

cieldumort May 1 2009, 20:29:33 UTC

Well, if I wrote the answer down here it would make it too easy for anyone to cheat ;)