Fri 2007-12-14 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Mr. Minsky Moment Calls for Rate Cuts
"he best we have is palliatives. We can either take the losses, as the US has repeatedly told third world countries in similar fixes to ours, or we can go the Japan route of socializing the cost of propping up bad businesses and deals, or we can expand the money supply considerably and let inflation eat away at the value of the debt overhang." bearish UBS economist George Magnus calls for rate cuts