Clippings: Lost decade? Not for next generation

Posted on January 7, 2010 |

• Editorial

By Angelo Lynn

The coincidence of having two of my three post-college-age daughters home over the holiday and it being the end of the first decade of the 21st century prompted this observation: While New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning economist Paul Krugman called the decade past “The Big Zero” for the economic stagnation that pervaded the Bush years, my daughters’ view of the decade was one of excitement and optimism.

Consider their perspective.

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