(kinda) A great website to share if you have no idea how to explain the downfall of the US economy.

Edit: Thanks to everyone who provided insight on this website. I’ve had this in my bookmarks for a very long time and was curious how it held up.

  • Krono
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    Leftists: its deregulation and reagan and the destruction of labor unions and forever wars and wall street and the death of manufacturing and and and

    Libertarians: “GOLD!”

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      I’m kinda tired of seeing this fucking website being passed around. Several of those rocketing charts begin their launch sequence in the 80s. Must be the gold! Regulations are bad!

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        Libertarians cannot handle the cognitive load of multiple contributing factors, otherwise they wouldn’t be libertarians.

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          I had a libertarian try to explain how a corporation couldn’t be evil because fire exists, needless to say, he never got the whole part about an idea not being the same as a rock

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      No it’s gold. Money printer goes brr is the root cause of almost all deregulation problems.