Is it the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act? :-)

[Drooling, smacking gum, falls asleep on desk]

honest, folks, that's pretty much all she ever does when I go over to her trailer.

at least now she's wearing clothes.

Jesus, Ace, you've been posting like a hopped-up vervet monkey with a raging hard-on for the last few hours.

The cocaine must be good.

I just got off the phone with my medical contact...she says it's Meth. she sounds like she knows what she's talking about.

I heard Alan Greenspan is going to donate his eyes to Stevie Wonder.

Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980?

The vice president in 1980 was Walter Mondale. I know you'd like to forget (wouldn't we all) that America could ever elect a limp-wristed ticket like Carter-Mondale, but you can't change history.

Unless you're a liberal historian, that is. In that case, hey, go nuts.

Malaise.

Um, Anal, Ben Stein made that statement in 1986...

Hmmm, I wonder if Stein is still a Keynesian?

well, with debates raging about extending tax cuts right now, that'd be my guess as to what's missing

but I'll go read the article to see if I'm right

When Cameron was in Egypt land.... let my Cameron go!

Anal -

Vice President Bush made that statement when he was running against Reagan in the primary in 1980. He wasn't Vice President when he said it, but was Vice President when the question was asked of Ferris Buehler. So, it was correct to refer to him as "Vice President Bush".

*removing plastic from boxy, asymmetrical pink-and-black checkered 80's style, totally bitchin' shirt that's been in the back of my closet for twenty years*

Honey?

Where's my skinny leather tie??

The Laffer Curve. That guy is a genius and its always fun trying to explain economics to liberals.

I just wish I could find the original quote from Uncle Hillary that Bush's tax cuts would lead to the next great depression (maybe for her).

Ben Stein said that about 1980. Bush WAS Vice President at the time.

I suppose he should have called him "CURRENT vice president," but at the time, it was understood.

Well, I guess BushHW was right all along. This debate need go no further to some primary line thrown out in 1980. JFK, Reagan and BushtheW, who have all had success with tax cuts, are wrong.

All we need to do is invent some new industry, claim that economies of scale will make everyone rich. Set up a speculative bubble based on ideas like pimentoloaf.com and let the good times roll. That's the key to economic growth.

a REAL GREAT ECONOMY MUST BE A MIND BLOWER FOR THE LIBERALS ESPEIALY FOR THE LIBERAL NLEFT-WING NEWS MEDIA

Sweet! I can pull out the leg warmers!

They're not just for dancers, you know!

*teases hair into a big, happy pouf and applies large floppy bow-clip*

Consumer confidence numbers were released today by the University of Michigan and they exceeded the median expectations. This is very good news but hidden in today's numbers is--no, not a floater in the punchbowl-- the news that home prices are easing. Not plummeting as we have all feared, but easing as we knew they must.

I cannot stress too much what very good news that is. The one asset that has inflated to the degree stocks did during the Clinton Economic Miracle is real estate. It appears this economy is not built upon a house of cards but on consumer and business optimism and liquidity.

Cowbell is called for, as well as mulled cider. And let also meats and cheeses be laid throughout the land.

The Dems want so, so badly to turn W's presidency into a remake of the Sixties, starring Chimpie McHitlerburton as Lyndon Milhous Nixon. Then they can segue smoothly into the Carter-era Seventies, complete with invertebrate foreign policy and a gut-shot economy.

Two of the suckiest eras ever in American history. I'll take a replay of the Eighties in a heartbeat. I knew that Members Only jacket was going to come in handy...

Where the hell did I put thos Chuck Taylors, the Izod shirt, and narrow cuff jeans?

And this time, Neil Young is too fucking old to pop up and ruin everything with his 'grunge' bullshit.

We're all gonna look so nice.

How drunk was Ace when he wrote this?

Does anyone have any Hillary quotes that Bush's tax cuts would lead to the next great depression (maybe for her). I recall that a couple of people made such a statement. Its about time to drag those comments into the light too.