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22 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 28 October 2012 04:10AM

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 29 October 2012 01:59:27PM 2 points [-]

There was lots of good economic news in the late 90s.

The media probably has the ability to distort our perception of certain things, like the risk of terrorism or serial murder. But trends like unemployment, tax increases, the fiscal cliff and the EU crisis seem hard to distort.