Even the two feature-length documentary films by James Blue take as their subjects Houston's housing crisis in the 1970s rather than Buffalo's own broken downtown and ethnic strife.
While in the December 1998 11434 was broken as the Dow made its way up the dot-com bubble, in September 2008 it was broken as it was about to tumble down the busted housing bubble.
We can talk all we want about aggregate demand and what it will take to pull us out of our jobs and housing depression, but the key to longer term prosperity and American leadership in the world is improving our broken educational system.