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One Response to “Life after the bubble: From American dream to American nightmare”

1. leftback Says:
   October 12th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

   Walk around any middle income neighborhood in America and you will see subtle signs of distress. Evictions, vacant homes, broken windows and board-ups are present in places where you never saw them before. This isn’t happening overnight but as a drip-drip-drip as Middle America is squeezed one job and one household at a time.