This Astonisher.com Free (Thought) Banner ran in its original form in 2003, three years before the American sub-prime mortgage meltdown began the descent into the economic maelstrom.
I believe this is the first published prediction of the ultimate outcome of George W. Bush and Alan Greenspan's catastrophic and plundering of the U.S. economy. How did we know all this bad mojo was coming way back in 2003? Well, I can tell you we at Astonisher.com did not use an Ouija board or consult the Institute of Supply Management.
All we really had to do was read John Kenneth Galbraith's classic treatment of the Crash of '29, The Great Crash: 1929, especially his discussion of the effects of leverage. If American history demonstrates anything, it is that an unregulated, easy-money boom that is presided over by pious, dim-witted Republicans will be followed by a crash, pretty much in direct proportion to the size of the initial speculative bubble. Ergo, "The Great George W. Bush Depression."
P.S. I never liked the design of the original banner (too light and fluffy, see below), so I later redesigned it to reflect the Divine inspiration of the Bush Administration (above).

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