The information was there, and a lot of warnings were made pretty explicitly. The problem is that these warnings rarely made headlines, and were certainly not incorporated into the "common wisdom" discourse that otherwise permeated editorials and background context for other articles.
So they were not very visible. But if you read these papers while aware of their biases, all the info was there, in excruciating detail. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Just a tiny teeny little difference: based on the same body of facts, the business papers opinion-makers touted a line of "Everything is fine in this brave new world" while you exposed the bullshit... Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
