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Wednesday, April 2, 2008 12:00 AM

The Great Depression: The sequel

Is it coming to a soup kitchen near you? Here's how we'll know if the current recession is turning into something much worse.

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  • Wednesday, April 2, 2008 06:26 AM

    To you fine people hoping for a bloody revolution

    Please remember that as long as you have an Xbox360, no matter how 'bad' things get, you're probably not going to rise up as one, and lop off all the heads of the aristocracy. Given that, there's little you will do at all. You see sometimes inaction is its own safety brake. Else every time a blogger called for heads on pikes, a bunch of you would actually go out and do that. I don't recommend mass genocidal anarchy though.

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