Part 2, deflation


I should include a "yaagh!!!" tag here. I cannot believe how the Bush administration has managed to come up with so many economists who will work for them and recite the supply side bullshit, and find ways to pervert economics to serve their purposes. It is hard to find an economist who would, without extreme financial or political incentive, corrupt his or her professional standing to peddle this twaddle and claptrap.

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