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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:42 is dead on right.

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. [/quote]

first of all, thank you for backing me up  :wink: .  And HOLY CRAP - I didn't even know things had gotten that effing dark.  I probably would have just gotten in my car and headed for the hills had I heard that assessment from a spouse who was a gov't economist.  That is even scarier than I thought.

Seriously, people seem to have forgotten how damn bad things really were at that point in time.  It was some ridiculously scary shit.  I realize some people's situations have not improved much since then, but our whole economic system is no longer on the verge of complete collapse.  Actually, not just ours - the global economic system.  We are incredibly lucky that the world didn't implode.  So, yeah, under THOSE conditions, gas fell to $1something per gallon.[/quote]

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