Миша, ты меня прости, но банковская система никак не летела после 9/11. если тебе интерессны детали, могу поделиться. *:-D *я как бы, немножко с этим знакома.

"Truman was an anomaly" - in a good sense of the word.
In my previous post it should read: "I think we've GONE around the block on this already"

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Robert - i disagree... the beautify of the political system in this country is in fact that one or the other political agenda cannot be pushed too far right or left for a long period of time. Although i'm not happy with some of the plans that Obama has in mind, somehow i doubt that all will be as bad as some poeple project. if my memory serves me right, after Bush has been elected, many threatened to move to Canada. ;-)

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Ok v takom sluchae obyasnite pozhalusta v chem vi hotite videt' uspeh Obami? v kakoy evo programme?

Роберт - у Обамы сама по себе идея - taking responsibility, digging ourselves out of this mess - неплохая. Эта идея ни как не нова в корпоративной Америке, но не часто присутствует у правительства.

To be fair and factual, American economy did suffer a huge setback after 9/11, even though it was not brought on by a banking calamity. Instead there were several factors, primarily the attack itself, coinciding with the ENRON and other related scandals and remnants of the Y2K-induced hi tech bubble. Bush to his credit with the help of the republican Congress passed a massive across the board tax cut thus bringing economy out of severe resession.

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Natan, government interventions into banking, insurance and healthcare sectors were necessary evils. Did you think it was better to allow the banks to fail?
Unions have been around in this country for decades - so why are you putting this on Obama?
You seem to be confusing cozying up with diplomacy... and what about Bush and the Saudies?
Please don't tell me that free speech wasn't restricted during the Bush administration.

Лина, я знаю о чем я говорю....все проблемы Америке начались после 9/11. Я конечно не такой подкованный в банкоской системе, как Зоечка, но куметь кое что тоже умею.

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to add to Natan's point - because of 9/11 and a temporary stop of the banking system, Check 21 became a reality, which radically changed the way banking is done in the US and propelled many innovations in this industry.