Crystal Ball Hell

—By Kevin Drum

| Wed Dec. 31, 2008 9:29 AM PST

CRYSTAL BALL HELL....Tom Petruno surveys the year's "most infamous pronouncements" as the economy melted down around our ears. It probably could have been a longer piece, but his editors wouldn't let him take over the entire business section for the day.

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