NEOAVATARA

Last year I did a piece on the top stories of the year, but with the closure of the ‘Aughts’ or whatever you want to call it, I thought a look back at the last 10 years might give some people some perspective.  And what an amazing and historic decade it was. 1.  September 11, [...]

Over a calm, sunny weekend in the middle of last September, our economy fell all off the proverbial cliff. Lehman Brothers, one of the great captains of industry, basically went bankrupt.  It was pure idiocy for officials not to realize this was coming.  Bear Stearns, another pillar of Wall Street, had gone defunct in March [...]