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Washington Times ^ | September 10, 2001 | Lawrence Kudlow

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Economic recovery is just around the corner, if you're to believe leading officials at the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the White House. By "recovery," they mean a 3 percent growth rate next year, with high expectations that clear rebound evidence will surface during this year's fourth quarter. But judging by the continued stock-market plunge, the public is not buying what the government is selling.

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While the Bush tax cuts passed by Congress are a move in the right direction over the long term, in the short run they are having little or no effect. Retailers around the country are reporting virtually no evidence that the tax rebates are boosting sales. Even more to the point, the nation is faced with a supply-side business downturn, not a consumer demand-side decline. It's as though the government economic doctors, having made the wrong diagnoses, are now prescribing the wrong remedy.

Sounds like little Dumbya is being damned by the faint praise of his "friends" at the WashTimes. Even so, the WashTimes editors continue to indulge their Repukie habit of speaking in code, e.g. not naming any of the "government economic doctors" they condemn.

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Even more to the point, the nation is faced with a supply-side business downturn, not a consumer demand-side decline. It's as though the government economic doctors, having made the wrong diagnoses, are now prescribing the wrong remedy.

Well said. Maybe when Bush is back in Crawford after 2004, he'll have the time to browse through the archives and find this article.