Artigo de Paul Krugman no NYT a 02/08/2002 no rescaldo da crise dot-com
To fight this recession the Fed needs (…) [a] soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.
O Insurgente 
Parece que os Americanos já começaram a dar um prazo a Obama:
In Poll, Obama Is Seen as Ineffective on the Economy
“A substantial majority of Americans say President Obama has not developed a strategy to deal with the budget deficit, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, which also found that support for his plans to overhaul health care, rescue the auto industry and close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, falls well below his job approval ratings.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/us/politics/18poll.html?_r=2&hp