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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by WillPostForFood on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:56AM (#12911912)
Whether you are liberal or conservative, it is hard to argue that 2016 is more a time of institutional weakness than 2008.
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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by a_humean on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:06PM (#12912052)
If I had to guess your definition of what counts as an institution is much narrower and fairly specific to banking and international finance.

When I say institutions I mean the political institutions that support and enforce the norms liberal democracy which make the key difference between say Russia and Egypt vs the US or France as models of democracy, specifically in these cases of presidential democracies.

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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by Terr_ on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:01PM (#12911984)
How so? What makes 2008 more politically dysfunctional than 2016?

Are you referring solely to the economic situation with the housing bubble?

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Re:It's Going to Be Okay by larrik on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:11PM (#12912113)
Economic crash and burn? Major financial institutions going under? GM?

Edit: parent edited his comment, so now mine seems off.

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