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[quote=Anonymous]17:42 is dead on right.  I'll never forget stopping in at a Kohl's the day after Christmas in 2008.  They were selling toddler-size tops for $1, pants for $1.50.  Yeah, of course I stocked up, but at the same time I was really freaked out -- I remember thinking, "I would gladly pay 3 or 4 times these prices if I could just know for sure that the stores will still all be open this time next year."  Some were, some weren't.

I also vividly remember going to the Credit Union to get $2000 in cash during the last week of September 2008.  DH is an economist for the government, and he went out to the street to call me so his bosses wouldn't hear; he told me that as far as he could tell, odds were at least 50-50 that the banks might not open on Monday, and the FDIC wouldn't be enough to save us all.  DH told me to figure out how much cash we'd need on hand to cover food and gas for at least two months and withdraw it ASAP.

I hope we're never in a place that dark again.  And it has nothing to do with politics -- Obama wasn't even elected until six weeks after the crash.[/quote]

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