I really feel that in 2006, things are starting to get like the way they were in the early 90's, a time of economic hardship, rising crime rates, and pessimism. The early 90's aren't exactly a time that I care to relive, but I really think the next few years are going to be like that. The gas prices aren't helping either.

2006=early 90s ??!

ehm..no?

2006=early 90s ??!

ehm..no?


2006=1990. The year when the economy starts to go bad. I think 2007 will be more like 1991, and 2008 will be like 1992 (because a Democrat will be elected president due to the bad economy).

The economy really seemed to start to be going badly in 1987, so I think 2006 is equaling 1987 more. It's still an era of excess and ignorance like the 1987ish period, not like the thoughtful early '90s.

I think every year since 1986 has had some early '90s in it.

The economy really seemed to start to be going badly in 1987, so I think 2006 is equaling 1987 more. It's still an era of excess and ignorance like the 1987ish period, not like the thoughtful early '90s.


The economy picked up in 1988 (like it did in 2004), and held up through 1989 and up to about mid 1990 (like it did through 2005 up until now). 2003 reminded me of 1987, with the economy and politics. The stock market had a sharp decline in the fall of 2003, which is around the same time that Black Monday happened in 1987. In 2003, Bush's approval was high, much like Reagan's in 1987. Now, Bush's approval is low, much like Bush Sr.'s in 1990.

1992

The economy really seemed to start to be going badly in 1987, so I think 2006 is equaling 1987 more. It's still an era of excess and ignorance like the 1987ish period, not like the thoughtful early '90s.


*boggle*

When were you born?  I'm an 80s kid.  What's weird is that our perceptions of these years are almost entirely opposed.

1987 was a scary day - but the Reagan years were a boom time compared the the stagflation of Carter's 70s.  Sure there was excess and ignorance, but it was glorious fun :)  I see the early '90s as a tight recession but (despite the lack of jobs), the _economy_ did pretty darn well.  Hardly a time for reflection; people set the stage for the makings of fortunes.

I see 2006 as the antithesis of both 1987's excess and the early-90s "jobless recovery"'s seeds for the dot-com boom.  The closest parallel I can draw from today is to the 70s:  Economic paralysis, high inflation, energy crisis, and limited economic growth due to the pre-Volker (and in 2006, the post-Greenspan) Fed that failed to defend the currency. 

I ain't arguing I'm right (or that you're right :) - I'm just saying that as an "80s kid" (Gen-X-er who who saw the period of 1984-2000 as the high point in American culture, and who perceived the early-90s recession as even *less* of a blip than the crash of '87).  And I'm curious as to what generation you consider yourself a part of, and whether there's a correlation.  If you want my cultural heritage, pick any of the characters from Coupland's "Microserfs" at random.  I'm any of them.

Mods: Feel free to shovel this post, if not the entire thread, over to the political section of the board if you like.  Only reason I'm posting here instead of there is that I think "what decade 2006 feels like" might be a function of "what decade were you born on". 

2006 is like a mix of 80's and early 90's. We don't have the musical revolution, we do have the poor (or wildly inconsistent) economy, we do have the excess and ignorance, and we do have the Cold War fear(terrorism) coupled with a real Gulf War 2.