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To: TobagoJack who wrote (43093)	11/24/2008 9:35:36 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 217680

There are some very good points made in this. Putting a biotech researcher or airline pilot behind a shovel won't do much for the economy. The great thing about cutting corporate tax rates is this targets companies that are growing and making money, and doesn't prop up the losers. Two other things that could be done would be to really push up the R&D tax credit, especially in some target areas like energy and medical care. The investment tax credit could also be pushed up, again targeted to key areas. This would make it much easier to build a photovoltaic silicon fab, and then put solar panels on top of buildings. The payoff on this is not great, but it is positive.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (43093)	11/25/2008 1:08:02 AM
From: pogohere	3 Recommendations Respond to of 217680

Since the consumer won't be leading this recovery, why not make wage cuts mandatory and lower corporate taxes to zero? That way corporations could virtually own their workers and boost profits at the same time. Then the triumph of the counter revolution will be secure and the American Revolution will have been totally reversed, with the corporate entities taking the place of the corporations chartered by the English kings, which corporations and charters were eliminated by the American Revolution. Voila Oh, and the outstanding derivatives? They're just academic, eh Dean?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (43093)	11/25/2008 7:57:56 AM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217680

i fear for his students. horrible myopia in that piece. and very usa centric.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (43093)	11/25/2008 9:36:05 AM
From: dvdw©	Respond to of 217680

This piece demonstrates the constraints of the bandwidth being used to try and reckon with the options served by previous actions. its low bandwidth all the way, contains no potential solution accept those so framed, which are ultimately mischarcterizations of the potential for corrective thinking. more modern day reflexivities, postured to contrive outcomes favoring the few, the proud, the undeserving.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (43093)	11/25/2008 9:44:56 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217680

I we will end up with 3 white candles today we may have a sustainable rally in stocks and decline in the treasuries and USD

To: TobagoJack who wrote (43093)	11/25/2008 11:34:36 PM
From: David	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217680

"3. Fiscal stimulus will be the only path that leads to a significant recovery. The real choice is how this takes place. a. One plan is to spend on infrastructure as China has proposed. This is straight out of the playbook of lessons from the great depression. Unfortunately, while this may be useful (these projects may create net wealth) it will not work as well as hoped in the US because our economy has changed so much over the last 70 years. In the 30's we had specialized physical capital (factories)and non-specialized labor (semi-skilled workers) idle because of the depression. Public works projects could employ productively this semi-skilled labor. With the multiplier effect, their consumption expenditures stimulated demand across the board. By contrast this major recession releases far more specialized labor and far less specialized capital. Public works cannot productively use this labor since their human capital is so mismatched to the jobs. We would suffer a huge opportunity loss by expecting this to work." I vote for a Trans-Galactic Battle Cruiser - think of the spinoff benefits, employ those skilled people, save the military industrial complex, celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. I was thinking Inter-Galactic but that might be a bit of a stretch.