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The Economic Mess Obama's Inheriting Comes from Clinton, Not Bush

By Wayne Roberts
NOW Magazine | November 24, 2008
If truth be known, Bush inherited, as Obama will soon, deregulated financial, agricultural, trade and social policies. Put in place by Bill Clinton and Al Gore, these were the achievement of the 1990s -- a period that needs to be understood not, as greens once hoped, as the "turnaround decade," but as the "regression decade."
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Tags: Barack Obama, politics, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, deregulation, economic issues, free trade agreements

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