[lbo-talk] me, in Truthdig: Our Delusions of Grandeur Will Save the World

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 18 09:11:29 PDT 2011


On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:


> But what about the "new economy" boom of the 90s, didn't that seem offer
> something, no matter how fleeting, to college grads?

The unemployment rate broke below 4% and there were real wage gains across the distribution - every quantile, every demographic - from about 1995 to 2000. Five years out of the last 40!

Doug



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