Back when 'hope' meant tax cuts and 'change' meant deregulation.
"I don't think anybody could have predicted ... that they would try to use an airplane as a missile...had this president known a plane would be used as a missile, he would have acted on it." - Condoleezza Rice, 2002
August 6, 2001: Bin Laden determined to strike in US
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"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." - George W. Bush, 2005.
White House Got Early Warning on Katrina
Why the Levee Broke
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"We all misjudged the risks involved...Everybody missed it -- academia, the Federal Reserve, all regulators". - Alan Greenspan, 2010.
I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed?
BUT...NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT THE MARKETS WOULD FAIL.
They obviously had an alternative interpretation of the word 'save'.
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