Why don't we all share a moment of silence for the father of QE, Ronald Reagan. The man who fired Volcker for daring to fight inflation and propose that the United States remain an industrial nation. In the bonus round NeoCon Ron fathered the bailout, banks (S&Ls) AND sleazeball finance (insurance [AIG]). His finest role was playing a man's man in a fake cold war.
Then let's have another moment of silence in gratitude for the finest Republican ever to be elected as a freakshow liberal, Slick Clinton. Brought us NAFTA, repeal of Glass Steagall, naked speculation in essential commodities and for good measure pardoned a man who didn't wait for naked speculation in essential commodities to be legal: his speaking tour sponsor, Marc Rich. In the bonus round, Clinton became the only human in history to "earn" a hundred million dollars without creating a private sector job, improving a process, or inventing something.
Last but not least, let us celebrate the people who re elected Junebug Bush in 2004. Already the most spectacularly failed president in US history by 2004, halfwit America re elected their kindred spirit who proceeded to borrow enough money to collapse the economy that Clinton and Reagan had pumped up with hot air and credit.
Those who can, may breathe again.