What was the best financial decade for the United States?
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Can we call the 1920's a good decade? Yes. Economy expanded greatly. It did lead to the crash of 29, but it was still a great decade. Can we call the 2000's a good decade? Overall, yes, the 2000's were pretty good to America. 2008 and 2009 were very rough admittedly.
I'm not sure what you are suggesting...should I add every year from 1870 to 2009?
Are you serious? The 2000's were a terrible decade economically for average U.S. citizens. Easily the worst since the Great Depression era of the 1930's. The only decade that comes close is the 70's. In the early 2000's, we saw gas prices triple or quadruple, we saw the stock market crash in 2001-2002, and personal wealth/savings declined precipitously. Wages declined relative to inflation. Food prices began to skyrocket from 2002-2004, especially meat and dairy products. Many jobs were out-sourced overseas, and people began working longer hours for less pay. In the latter 2000's, we experienced the housing market crash from 2007-2008, large government bailouts of the auto industry, and a downgrade in U.S. credit rating (was this '09 or '10?). Overall, the 2000's sucked economically unless you worked on Wall Street, were a CEO of a large corporation, or a doctor, lawyer, or athlete. Not too many other professions did well during that time. We entered an age known as "the new normal" where past trends no longer apply, and we must except less.
I would say the 1950s and the 1990s, though I voted '50s because it seems a wee bit better. The 1950s was part of a prosperous period that lasted from about 1946-1970, the "postwar expansion period". There were a couple minor recessions in the 1950s, but on the whole it was a very prosperous decade.
The 1920s come in fifth, behind the '60s and '80s. On the whole, the 1920s was a prosperous decade (although not as prosperous to the "common man" as the '50s, '90s, '60s, and '80s). The full effects of the Great Depression were not seen until the calendar had ticked over into the 1930s (and even the first stock market crash was only two months before the end of 1929).
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