A Plan For Recovery

While bank closures and high foreclosure and mortgage default rates are universally seen as negative impacts on the economy, it is closures and foreclosures that we need for a recovery. The bearers of such news are usually ignored as doom-sayers, bears, or Cassandras: no one wants to hear bad news. A fear of "bad news" is what has been driving the government's recovery policies and that is why this recession is not over. In fact those same policies may be leading us to a renewed period of decline.