> And I recall a Clinton-administration National Economic Council meeting (at
> which I stood against the back wall with the other aides)--perhaps in June
> 1993?--and heard Bob Rubin state that aggressive pursuit of deficit
> reduction was our best chance to get a prolonged investment-led
> job-creating high-productivity-growth recovery, and that without such a
> prolonged economic expansion the chances of defending and expanding the New
> Deal and the Great Society were zero...
Well, that's why banana cream pies were invented, right? Think of those expensive threads, bespattered with meringue -- you'd be immortalized as the Man Who Pied the Bond Market!
-- Dennis