![]() Sirota: The situation on Wall Street, all the Gordon Gekko "Wall Street" stuff came back out, the "Bonfires of the Vanities" and "masters of the universe." All of that was so iconic of the '80s and then suddenly it was hugely iconic in the Wall Street collapse and its aftermath and the whole debate about executive pay.Īnd then all the stuff about war. There's sort of that deja vu where you don't know where you heard it, but you could swear you've been there before.Ĭ: Can you give some examples? ![]() Sirota: The evolution was, I started hearing things in my own work in the political and media world that just sounded really, really familiar, and I was wondering why. But I think that has become much more obvious in the past few years.Ĭ: How did you make this discovery? ![]() ![]() We've gone back to the '80s!ĭavid Sirota: (Laughs) The thesis of the book is that the '80s have never ended, that we're basically still living in the 1980s. Since the '80s also marked the explosion of the consumer credit card industry, we thought it prudent to chat with Sirota about the rise of plastic and its ascension to cultural icon status.Ĭ: No wonder these times seem strangely familiar. ![]()
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