There was no 17 year expansion. The economy was tipped into recession in 1982 by the economic actions of the new administration(Their 'push-pull' hypothesis); and as Dave Stockman explains in his autobiography, the recession would have been much worse if Kemp and the gold-bugs had had their way. Furthermore, there was another major recession during the George HW Bush administration, less than a decade after that of '82.[[User:Keysersoze|Keysersoze]] 21:15, 29 November 2011 (EST) | There was no 17 year expansion. The economy was tipped into recession in 1982 by the economic actions of the new administration(Their 'push-pull' hypothesis); and as Dave Stockman explains in his autobiography, the recession would have been much worse if Kemp and the gold-bugs had had their way. Furthermore, there was another major recession during the George HW Bush administration, less than a decade after that of '82.[[User:Keysersoze|Keysersoze]] 21:15, 29 November 2011 (EST) |