3 ms·
The Great U-Turn
- garply 17y agoWith regards to the current recession hitting the developed and developing worlds differently, I was looking at this graph a while back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2007-2009_World_Financial_Crisis.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2007-2009_World_Financial_... and I'm still trying to decide how to interpret it. Does it mean that the US was the epicenter of the blast and the shock waves just haven't hit the economies that are less tied in yet? Or is it indicative of the world's wealth moving towards equilibrium (the Western world decelerating while the developing world accelerates)?
- apsec112 17y agoThe Onion predicted this three years ago. No, seriously: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/47978 http://www.theonion.com/content/node/47978 I wonder how many of "satirical" articles actually wind up describing the future; it would be fairly easy to do a study on, say, articles published in 1999 and see how many of them have since become accurate.