> and so far we've fared MUCH better than the 30s. There was an entire decade between the Spanish influenza pandemic and the beginning of the depression - it's

> and so far we've fared MUCH better than the 30s. There was an entire decade between the Spanish influenza pandemic and the beginning of the depression - it's not obvious to me why we should already presume to have mastered economic effects that trailed the historical "equivalent" by a decade