This might be an appropriate place to remind ourselves of the failure of the neoclassical economists who announced the end of the business cycle in an early postwar economy. Keynes, in Chap. 24 of his "General Theory..." lists fundamental flaws of capitalist economies (but not all of them!). As such , the capitalist's boom contains the seeds of its own destruction; hence the business cycle of boom and bust. Sadly, no one yet has a theory to tell us exactly when the bust will come. Equally unfortunate for all of us is the seemingly irrepressible view that the capitalist economy is equilibrium seeking. This is rotten thinking that's got into the minds of Republican economists, and they simply can't get it out. The Bust will come, now tell me when please.