@zav - I've always had trouble with plurals. And tenses. And typos. Thanks for catching that, and thanks for Miss C for coming to my defense!
Re: "ghetto" - I certainly didn't mean it as a put down or as a racial slur. I meant it as a style (as eloquently put by LisaL) What else would you call it? Urban? Hip-hop?
@Senior Taco: The California Energy Crisis and the Dot-com Bubble are two separate things. The rolling blackout had nothing to do with the high flying stocks of the dot-coms.
Interestingly, the dot-com bubble coincided with the telecom bubble. Most people lumped those two together, but they're actually separate things.
@draught/drought - thanks to those who corrected me! I actually know the difference, but am prone to typsos ... Darn these fat figners!
@dr. jan vanderpool, EdD: You're welcome to copy the text and distribute it in your class with attributions to Neatorama.com. The pictures are copyright their respective owners.
@Phil K.: The next domino to fall? Well, I don't know. But consider this: they've done the same thing to credit card debts as they've done to mortgages (securitize 'em) ...
@fireflicker: you're right about gas prices. I didn't mention them at all because they're quite separate from the subprime/credit crunch though high gas prices did contribute to higher cost of doing business, less money to spend on other consumables, leading to lowered business earnings, and so on. High gas prices did take a toll on the economy.
And finally, thanks to everyone who said that they liked the article! I hope this helps to explain what's going on and put everything in perspective. Please tell your friends about it!
Neato gets hundreds of (legit) comments a day, so monitoring this is a very time-consuming process. Often times I get too far behind ...
Re: "ghetto" - I certainly didn't mean it as a put down or as a racial slur. I meant it as a style (as eloquently put by LisaL) What else would you call it? Urban? Hip-hop?
@Senior Taco: The California Energy Crisis and the Dot-com Bubble are two separate things. The rolling blackout had nothing to do with the high flying stocks of the dot-coms.
Interestingly, the dot-com bubble coincided with the telecom bubble. Most people lumped those two together, but they're actually separate things.
@draught/drought - thanks to those who corrected me! I actually know the difference, but am prone to typsos ... Darn these fat figners!
@dr. jan vanderpool, EdD: You're welcome to copy the text and distribute it in your class with attributions to Neatorama.com. The pictures are copyright their respective owners.
@Phil K.: The next domino to fall? Well, I don't know. But consider this: they've done the same thing to credit card debts as they've done to mortgages (securitize 'em) ...
@fireflicker: you're right about gas prices. I didn't mention them at all because they're quite separate from the subprime/credit crunch though high gas prices did contribute to higher cost of doing business, less money to spend on other consumables, leading to lowered business earnings, and so on. High gas prices did take a toll on the economy.
And finally, thanks to everyone who said that they liked the article! I hope this helps to explain what's going on and put everything in perspective. Please tell your friends about it!