And That's The Way It Was, 1980-1989
October, 1979
January 1, 1990. It would have been difficult to convince the desperate gasaholic of 1983 that what he dreamed of as he jogged to work in his recycled polyester suit--an abundance of oil--might turn out to be a disaster. But a disaster is what the oil glut turned out to be, deflating an economy dependent on inflation, throwing into penury countries and companies that thrived on shortages.The Eighties were a decade of supreme contradictions: ten years of glorious up- and downheavals,120 months th...
