Obamba is not to blame. You need to start with Reagan (PPT creation), continue to Bush I, then Clinton (Summers, GreenSpan, Rubin), then Bush II (whom I can't blame, he was actually pretty dumb, so the country was run behind his back -g-) for creating this mess.
Now it blew up. It's not easily fixable. Yes, you can get the Dow to 10,000,000,000,000, but other things will too increase in price, and unemployment will stay high for some time.
One thing Obama did WRONG was to appoint the same democratic economic team that ruined the country under Clinton. Naturally, they could not do anything else but push more debt into the blown up credit bubble that just won't go in.
One thing he did right was to listen to Volcker last week, and that tanked the market. A year too late. Whether he does what needs to be done to right the ship remains to be seen, it requires political courage, but Volcker is a step in the right direction. I have no clue if this first step will be followed by more steps in the right direction, or we kinda turn here and go the other way again. We HAVE to go thru some rough waters in order to emerge strong. Take the red pill, as was prescribed by the IMF to so many different countries that screwed up over the years since WWII -g- |