The 2000s

Jason Linkins

The End Of A Decade: We Are All Harry Whittington

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The 2000s, Hurricane Katrina, War in Iraq, Dick Cheney, Harry Whittington, Financial Crisis, Then We Came to the End, September 11th, 2000s, Eat the Press, Media News

A few weeks ago, Newsweek produced a video, which condensed the major news events of the past decade into one seven-minute mashup video. At the time, I thought: "Oh, this will be fun." It was not fun. Not at all.

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6 Terrible Names People Are Trying to Give This Decade

Cracked.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Decade, The Bush Years, The 2000s, The Aughts, The Zeros, The Naughties, Comedy News

There are a little less than three weeks left in this, the so far awesomest decade of the 21st century. But bizarrely, no one seems to have settled on...

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A Decade Far Worse Than a "Big Zero" (1999-2009)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Zero, Lloyd Blankfein, Global Crossing, Enron, Gramm-Leach-Biley Act, The 2000s, George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Worldcom, Goldman Sachs, Robert Rubin, Tyco, President Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Paul Krugman, Joe Lieberman, 1999-2009, Corporate Power, Worse Than Zero Decade, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

We can call the 2000s the "Worse Than Zero" decade or the "Big Zero," or anything we wish, but what characterized it most for me was the near total control of corporations, especially over our civic institutions.

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Financial Decade In Review: The Biggest Stories Of The Last 10 Years

AP | EILEEN AJ CONNELLY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Unemployment, Stocks, The 2000s, Decade in Review, Commercial Debt, Personal Finance, Business News

It was a decade of living dangerously. With interest rates low and lending standards lower, credit became the currency of the decade....

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