There were multiple variables in play. Lower taxes will
Posted on: December 20, 2017 at 19:10:19 CT
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generally help boost an economy... so will pumping a lot of money into the economy via the Fed, deficit spending, a spending & borrowing spree by consumers &/or businesses etc.
A lot of those are like a drug addict going on a high... the high is temporary and needs more money pumped in, or more spending &/or more borrowing to keep the high going, though. Unfortunately, a borrowing and spending spree has to come to an end and there will be a price to pay for the excess when it happens... much like a drunk will have a hangover after the party ends.
Lower taxes, if they are fiscally responsible, can be sustainable, unlike the borrowing.
But again, the Fed is always the elephant in the room. They can single handedly blow bubbles. Unfortunately, when they push the economy beyond its limits, there will be an inevitable crash.
Unfortunately, the Fed has been blowing bubble after bubble trying to keep the crash from happening, but that is just going to make the eventual crash that much worse.
After the dot.com bubble they blew, they followed Krugman's idiotic advice and created a housing bubble to compensate when the crash hit... then after the housing bubble crash and ginormous fallout they blew an even bigger bubble... and that's where we are right now.