Tonight’s Salon cover story surveys economists and other experts on the pressing question: What should President Bush do about the cratering markets and becalmed economy? We know Bush’s own prescription: He wants to lower taxes for the wealthy further, to stand by his bizarrely disoriented Secretary of the Treasury (who told reporters, according to Bloomberg News, “I’m constantly amazed that anybody cares what I do”), and take a monthlong vacation at his ranch. As the New York Times’ Paul Krugman keeps reminding us, Bush’s economic plan has remained unchanged from 1999 — when the economy looked, ahem, very different. This is known as the “dead hand on the tiller” approach, and it usually leads to a nasty collision.
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