Oh, Lawrence. Housing slowdown, high crude prices -- these are not trivial things.
It amazing that the stock market has flirted with the highs it last saw when crude was $25 a barrel. But it's starting to show the wear and tear of high crude prices.
Fortunately, the crude chart looks horrible.
People trivialize things they don't want to face or acknowledge. In spite of our massive, confiscatory taxation levels and costs of regulations that businesses face, we are still doing fairly well...but it isn't going to hold. Because..the government will not stop its runaway spending and associated taxation, a main force influencing the economy. Sadly, it always seems to take a major downside to get the power-focused pols to slow down buy their power with our tax dollars...
The Greatest Story Never Told"
Reagan didn't create jobs or increased production and services - and he never claimed he did. What he did do was to reduce the bad effects of the government and its policies on the economy so that the "private sector" (more properly designated "we the people") increased the GDP and created jobs.That is what really frosts "liberals" about Reaganomics - it extols government disipline - and government inaction. "Liberals" want to be seen to have done something, not heroically standing pat the way Reagan advocated.
Many young Americans are unaware how bad economic conditions were in the USA under Jimmah Carter, circa 1980. After a few rough years we turned the corner in 1983 and haven't looked back. Thank God for President Reagan and his bold reform policies on federal income tax code.