re: Experian: Millennials have horrible credit

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I mean shite, isn’t that what started the Great Depression?

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Nope, inflated stock values in the 20's were similar to Dutch Tulip boom then bust.

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The Great Recession under carter?

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Oil shocks under Nixon (early 70's) and Carter (late 70's) coupled with funding the Vietnam War caused most of the financial malaise of that decade.

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Don’t give me this shite that spending beyond your means started with millennials.

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It stared in the 1980's with the massive expansion of credit so yes it is a relatively new phenomenon.