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Re:The US economy shrank at an annualized rate of 2.9 percen... by Zigurd on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @09:49PM (#7947757)
A cost revolution in creating housing is much less likely than MOOCs killing the 3rd tier colleges.

I'd like to be in an alternate universe without the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Afghanistan is famously The Graveyard of Empires, and I wonder if we are not just staggering around with a mortal wound, with another crash coming to bring us down comprehensively. Nationalizing the ibanks instead of TARP would be a nice alternate universe, too.

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Re:The US economy shrank at an annualized rate of 2.9 percen... by mikeash on Thursday June 26, 2014 @10:36AM (#7949834)
I think we are the alternate universe. Bush's win over Gore in 2000 was so ridiculous that a half-assed intervention by time-traveling experimental historians almost seems like a reasonable explanation.

It is interesting, and sad, to think of how much may have ended up hanging on a couple of hundred Florida voters. Of course, it may be wrong to think that a Gore presidency would have been all that different.

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