Re 2001 when the gloves came off? I think 9/11/01 was a real sucker punch to the Vultures. They were thrown totally off stride.
Greenspan and his handlers imo, were FORCED to drop rates hard and fast, create and sell millions of sub prime real estate loans after that day, to create a real estate boom, to over ride the dot com crash recession, and a total collapse of the economy from the attack.
The way I see it, the slowdown then the attack, simply delayed the collapse to 2008. As far as I’m concerned, the ’08 meltdown was a delayed result of 9/11. And TPTB are still weaving and bobbing from that attack.