It was the best of times. The early 1990s was a great time to come of age. The Reagan era creaked to an un-auspicious end with the Iran Contra scandal leaving a permanent tinge of scandal to the end of the 1980s. Reagan’s Treasury Department left a gigantic economic mess for George H. Bush due to his de-regulation of the Savings and Loan Institutions which caused major speculation by these S&L which eventually led to numerous banks failing due to bad and often corrupt investments. This S&L scandal was a major contributor to the recession of 1990 that Bush Sr. had fall right into his lap. His “READ MY LIPS” speech and then
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