Agree, it is an interesting article. Thanks for posting it. Whether or not "the age of US exceptionism is over" I think that there will be fall out that will go on for years. Certainly there is a large portion of the US population that don't think this type of problem can happen to them. It could be a very long climb back out of this.

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