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Re:The End of Guitar Center by dredmorbius on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @08:15PM (#9001196)
If the financial system had collapsed, and it very nearly did, that would not have been hyperbole.

I'm not happy with how the bailouts happened and bankers and others who engineered the disaster not only walked scot-free but made a killing on the situation, but increasingly I'm convinced we dodged an asteroid there.

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Re:The End of Guitar Center by mathattack on Thursday February 05, 2015 @09:04AM (#9003251)
I'm painfully aware of 2008, but the martial law piece is a stretch. It's like the folks who answer every question with "Let's get back on the gold standard."
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Re:The End of Guitar Center by dredmorbius on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:28AM (#9003672)
At the very best it would have been uncharted territory. Given the civil unrest that's been seen in parts of the U.S. without overt financial system collapse, I really don't see it as a huge stretch.
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