Both the US and Japan are now creating jobs. This will provide enough wage income to sustain the excesses of the world economy a bit longer. President George W Bush and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan have succeeded in doing what I once thought they could not do ? push a monetary string stiff as a drive shaft, linking free money to jobs.
Free money and profligate fiscal policy have also inflated financial assets and kept housing bubbles bulging.
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