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]]> By: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad http://donklephant.com/2005/07/27/go-shopping/comment-page-1/#comment-683 Tom Grey - Liberty Dad Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:39:23 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=431#comment-683 Simp's suggestion of more gradual change is good -- all too often reform involves a massive price shock. I recall bread riots in Africa when price controls were eliminated and bread more than doubled in price (Nigeria?) The EU wants to eliminate subsidies on sugar beet. ALL of them, in one shot. This is stupid. 10% a year for some years, or 1% per month for many months, are much better gradual changes. MBNA should go 2.5% for 6 months, 3% for 6 months, 3.5% for 6 months, and then be at 4%. (or go up by .1% each month: 2.1, 2.2....) The rising interest rates in the US means the big deficit is too big; prolly unemployment is TOO LOW (at about 5%). But the lack of big headlines about unemployment, since it is so good (too pro-Bush), is prolly why the confidence is low. Trade deficits don't matter so much; budget deficits do, and interest rates, and employment. Economy watchers need to keep watching the same important indicators. Simp’s suggestion of more gradual change is good — all too often reform involves a massive price shock. I recall bread riots in Africa when price controls were eliminated and bread more than doubled in price (Nigeria?)

The EU wants to eliminate subsidies on sugar beet. ALL of them, in one shot.

This is stupid. 10% a year for some years, or 1% per month for many months, are much better gradual changes.
MBNA should go 2.5% for 6 months, 3% for 6 months, 3.5% for 6 months, and then be at 4%. (or go up by .1% each month: 2.1, 2.2….)

The rising interest rates in the US means the big deficit is too big; prolly unemployment is TOO LOW (at about 5%). But the lack of big headlines about unemployment, since it is so good (too pro-Bush), is prolly why the confidence is low. Trade deficits don’t matter so much; budget deficits do, and interest rates, and employment. Economy watchers need to keep watching the same important indicators.

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