A Look at the 15 Years Before and After 2000.... OOOOOOF! | First Rebuttal

``Now between 1985 and 2000 about half of the indicators improved while half worsened.  The next 15 years i.e. the past 15 years has been a disaster with 6:1 indicators worsening.  This in and of itself is enough to tell all the muppets spouting about how wonderful things are to stop because they really do look like fking idiots... Why do you think Jack Lew, James Bullard, Jim Plosser, etc., etc. are constantly doing national televised interviews when before 2008 and certainly before 2000 most average Americans had absolutely never heard of a Fed governor or FOMC meeting? The answer is because it is requiring that much more effort to stabilize the perception of tomorrow's economic strength and thus the USD...''