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23. Well steady deregulation, tax cuts, free trade instead of reciprocal trade, de-unionization,

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 01:48 AM

Dec 2011

and nonenforcement of anti-trust. Deregulation of the financial system led directly to collapse.

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Anyone care to know when this economic decline we are in now began? [View all] NNN0LHI Dec 2011 OP

2004 ChairmanAgnostic Dec 2011 #1

That may very well be when the inequality of income began for you? NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #4

Totally agree. Mimosa Dec 2011 #24

As a 4 year dozer operator in '77 madokie Dec 2011 #7

Yep...the Reagan Reaction is what set it off deutsey Dec 2011 #2

Gambling 90-percent Dec 2011 #5

I remember it well madokie Dec 2011 #6

The de-regulation of investment banks was a very big contributor. comipinko Dec 2011 #9

I don't know, What where you laid-off from? comipinko Dec 2011 #11

Union autoworker NNN0LHI Dec 2011 #13

Seems to me, you are a victim of the corporatist's policy called comipinko Dec 2011 #14

You are right that things pivoted starting around that time. PETRUS Dec 2011 #12

1981...Reagan tax cuts.....and destruction of PATCO n/t prairierose Dec 2011 #17

Amen, my brother. Union membership in private business is down to 7 percent. mistertrickster Dec 2011 #18

The open gate policy is what did construction Bennyboy Dec 2011 #22