Wednesday, November 19, 2008
An open letter to my kids on what the current economic crisis has taught us, and how they can learn
The 'Great Crash' in the history books
You are both too young to read this letter now. But in a decade or so, I suspect you'll be hearing about the events of autumn 2008 in your history class. You might wonder what it felt like to live through a global crisis. And when you learn about the years just before the crash - the houses that magically doubled in value, the no-questions-asked mortgages - you'll surely ask what all of us crazy old folks could have been thinking.
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