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Old 07-22-2011, 12:13 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
Sure, but the other issues that were caused by 9/11 had a large part in the American Economy besides the actual money spend, which was huge.

American confidence was hard.

The govenment moved their focus away from domestic issues to foreign issues

The distraction of America's middle generation as they went off to war.

The removal of a flexible government that had a streak of panic in it.
To connect the sub-prime crisis to 9/11. A lot of people blame the sub-prime crisis on the cheap money that Alan Greenspan allowed by dropping the fed rate so low after 9/11 to re-instil confidence.
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