Looking Back on a Strip
Posted by John on June 14th, 2009
Can you guess when this strip ran? If your guess was sometime in the early fall of 2008, then you’re only off by 18 months. This strip actually ran on March 6th 2007. The Dow was at record highs, the economy seemed to be in pretty good shape, housing values were at record highs, yet there was something going on that was making some of us a little uneasy. The cracks were beginning to show in the economy. Many folks were not aware of them, or if they were, they simply refused to acknowledge their existence. Anne and I had a pretty good idea of what was going on, and that a recession was coming, although I don’t think either of us could have predicted the severity of it.
I recall letters we received from readers about some of these “economy” strips I was running, questioning where I was getting my (flawed) information, and pointing out that I had no idea what I was talking about. I knew this strip was right, but what I didn’t know when it ran was that my timing was wrong. These types of economy strips simply weren’t resonating with many readers in early ‘07. Looking back on those “high times” I now understand why.