Friday, August 01, 2008

We Need Volcker-Reagan

You can take all the sophisticated economic mumbo-jumbo and toss it. Our predicament is simply diagnosed and simply corrected. We are stagflating. We need higher interest rates (Fed funds around 5%) and lower taxes (Bush '03 tax cuts made permanent and corporate rate cut to 25%). We need them now. Will we get them? Doubtfully.

1 Comments:

Blogger Tax Shelter said...

and the longer we stagflat, the more pain there will be down the road when we finally take our medicine. The Bernanke Fed has a good chance to become one of the worst in history.

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