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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (3458)	12/24/2007 11:56:00 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

OT The first problem might cause me to not spend as much time reading the arguments, but it isn't actually a weakness of the argument. The 2nd problem isn't much of a problem to me (I'm not the Time's biggest fans, but I do use it as one of my many news sources, and not everything they publish has a left wing slant). The third problem is the real issue. I agree with a lot of your points about this "third problem", but I think you exagerate things a lot when you say "the dot com bubble that nearly destroyed our economy". Even if you extend it to the more general NASDAQ/tech bubble, and some semi-bubble prices in other stocks, I don't think either the bubble or its collapse came anywhere close to nearly destroying the economy. The burst was a major factor in a recession, maybe it caused us to have an "extra recession" that we might have otherwise avoided, but going in to a recession isn't destroying the economy. I think you would need at least something like the great depression to qualify for that, and even then its more like "nearly destroyed the economy". In terms of truly destroying an economy your talking about something like the policies of the Kims in Korea or Mugabe in Zimbabwe.