"However, just as all Americans benefited from the higher standard of living generated by the decades-long artificially induced boom, we may all have to suffer the consequences when the business cycle turns down, and the contrived boom turns to bust."
Ah, the economic Puritan myth, that 'good times' require some countervailing 'bad times' to compensate.
Hogwash... Good economic policy creates prosperity, and prosperity is not something you can 'fake' for very long.
LOL. And there's never been a recession. How much does what you're smoking cost?
" In the long run, were all dead..."
John Maynard Keyes