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If We Did Go Into A Recession, Something That's Always Possible For The U.s. Or Europe, We Could Lower Interest Rates And Expand The Money Supply Without Worrying About The Price Of Gold.

The Russian Drama Began At The End Of 1991, When The Soviet Union Mercifully Ended. Russia And 14 Other New Countries Emerged From The Ruins Of The Soviet Union. Every One Of Those 15 New States Faced A Profound Historical, Economic, Financial, Social And Political Challenge.

Our Challenge, Our Generation's Unique Challenge, Is Learning To Live Peacefully And Sustainably In An Extraordinarily Crowded World. Our Planet Is Crowded To An Unprecendented Degree. It Is Bursting At The Seams. It's Bursting At The Seams In Human Terms, In Economic Terms, And In Ecological Terms

Obama Is Already Setting A New Historic Course By Reorienting The Economy From Private Consumption To Public Investments... Rightwing Pundits Bemoan The Evident Intention Of Obama And Team To 'tell Us What Kind Of Car To Drive'. Yet That Is Exactly What They Intend To Do...and Rightly So. Free-market Ideology Is An Anachronism In An Era Of Climate Change.

Unfortunately, The Real Focus In This Country Has Not Been On The Rest Of The World. It's Been On Our Own Issues And Our Own Problems. Fair Enough. But It Means That Our Simple Hopes That Everything Will Just Work Out Abroad Aren't Really Coming To Pass.