How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

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D
espite the bailouts and incentives made by Bass 
and Plankton, the Usonian economy continued to 
deteriorate during the Great Hut Rut. Strangely, no one 
showed much interest in buying new huts. Instead of 
spending their stimulus fi sh, some islanders elected to 
save them. With spending stagnant, the cart companies 
teetered on the edge of extinction. Hut Depot 
was devastated. Unemployment got worse. Public 
dissatisfaction intensifi ed. 
The next election proved to be pivotal. Barry Ocuda, 
a candidate for Senator-in-Chief, accused the Bass 
faction of inadequacy in the face of a national 
emergency. He pilloried the Bass moves as trifl ing half 
measures. Campaigning on a theme of transformation, 
Ocuda promised much greater government efforts to 
turn the island’s economy around. 
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