But again with the predictions.  That may turn out to be the case, I don't know -- I certainly feel that the current stimulus is too small, but do not yet know - and neither does anyone else here -- whether Obama will expand and/or withdraw it, on what time frame either might happen, and what effect all of these variables will have on the economy overall.  Events, as they say, are unfolding.

My original point still stands -- what we're currently witnessing is NOT a collapse equivalent to the depression; and the political environment Obama stepped into is different from the one FDR stepped into.  Everything else remains to be seen as they also say.  

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

To be fair, that wasn't (mostly) FDR's policy. It was mostly a pushback by right-wing congresscritters who went all chicken little on the deficit.

- Jake

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