The thorny issue of what to actually call the decade we’ve just departed remains. Obviously the Naughties has a certain element of fun to it but also an irreverence that really doesn’t suit it. The Zeroes perhaps is a more reasonable idea, between the dot-com boom and bust followed by the housing derivatives econocalypse, and taking inflation into account the actual percentage increase in wealth per capita increase since 1999 overall is nothing. Zero.
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