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                          | Monday, December 20, 2004 |  
                          | Concerted Policy Needed to Solve Looming Economic Crisis |  
                          | An piece in yesterday's Times nicely lays out the economic problems with the current state of affairs (high budget and trade deficits, low dollar). It likens todays situation to a similar one faced by Reagan in 1985 (difference is dollar was overvalued) and discusses how Reagan set a concerted course to improve the circumstances with proactive policy. 
 For the short version, print out and start reading at the top of Page 2 - the paragraph that starts "In broad schematic terms...".
 
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                          | posted by CB @ 5:17 PM   |  
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