We can start by getting big government (and their clueless lackeys at the FED) out of the economy all together. Ironically, those who post here all agree that central planning (as in socialism) doesn't work yet at the same time we expect a handful of morally corrupted and Wall Street sponsored politicians to provide us with an articficial fix. The ONLY solution is to suffer through the pain of the hangover from the 90's party and then rebuild on a solid economic base. Let the system clear itself and then move on. Central planning didn't work for the communists and socialists and it isn't going to work for us either.
Richard W.
No politician that advocates pain and suffering (even if it is the most rational choice) will get elected. That's the rub. The solution may be the correct one but this is where democracy interferes with the rational process. The party that promises to solve the problem with no pain- or indeed, gain- will get elected. Whether they deliver on that or not is a side issue. The fact that they get injected into the problem changes the nature of the problem (and therefore the solution).