To those who’ve been conned into believing that “Nobody coulda knowed!” about the bubble developing in the mid-2000s that was likely to be very harmful to the world economy, check out this book.
Publishing date: October 6, 2006.
Heck, I remember telling people (my SO included before she was my SO) that the housing bubble was really dangerous in 2005.
“Nobody coulda knowed” is a way for the people involved in the financial crisis and the greatest scam since the 1930s to evade responsibility and to convince the rabble that they just had no idea — poor little things — what the risks were.
And it worked.
A lot of people knew something wasn’t right. Here’s an article from Fortune from 2004. Check out the cover image from that issue. Another classic is “‘No One Could Have Anticipated’ Terrorists Flying Planes Into Buildings Before 9/11,” except, I suppose, the Lone Gunmen writers.