"the lost decade"?

another indication of how much the last decade sukd:

For most of the past 70 years, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady clip, generating perpetually higher incomes and wealth for American households. But since 2000, the story is starkly different.The past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times, a sharp reversal from a long period of prosperity that is leading economists and policymakers to fundamentally rethink the underpinnings of the nation's growth.

but, hey, the rich got their tax cuts and everything under the shining sun got deregulated, so the rest of us just need to adjust