"... meltdown that sparked the Great Recession...' http://www.mgross.com/books/740-park/ Garbage hypothesis if it wasn't world-wide.  Sure, call it that if you're a drooping Marxist or Barking-mad Libertarian ( Inverse-Marxist ) Then go join Gramps in the Incontinent Chronics Ward.  You're a garbage-scow Gramps - the Evil Twin of Robin Leech. You suck - go die.