The Great Financial Meltdown of '08

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Don't you just love it when TracyCoxx starts a thread and then is so easily made to reveal its true purpose? As GRH wrote:

Originally Posted by GRH

I realize the purpose of the opening post wasn't to provoke educated discussion (or to talk about how deleveraging recessions have historically been long and required many years to reach full recovery)-- ...

Is anyone who has followed the TracyCoxx trajectory on this site willing to admit that she or he didn't know that the opening post was but a setup to publish a list of the sort posted just above by TracyCoxx? The questions TracyCoxx posed in the opening post were clearly rhetorical; TracyCoxx already had the "answers" but didn't post them. No, the provocation of the rhetorical question was just too alluring.

I think this may well be the clearest example yet of the true purpose behind these threads, and of the verity of the characterization I and others have made of the OP. This time it was done with a bit more panache than usual, but nevertheless ...

Now, does anyone want to have a real discussion?