doodledee

Joseph Stiglitz has an article in The Atlantic that provides an excellent insider's view of the economic boom of the 1990's. It touches on everything: unemployment, inflation, deregulation, tax breaks, bailouts, and funny accounting. He's dumbed it down enough that even those of us with no money left in our 401k's can understand what he's talking about. It's a wee long, but it's a good read.
On a fun note, if you haven't seen it by now, here's the frickin' greatest optical illusion ever made by anyone ever. >poof< I just blew my mind.