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With that familiar scare tactic being trotted out yet again (no, the shrinking surplus doesn't imperil current Social Security recipients), it's tempting to turn off the whole sorry show and head back to the beach. But the dwindling surplus will have a real impact on ordinary Americans. To avoid cutting into the Social Security trust fund, Congress may have to slash farm subsidies, tax credits for the working poor and other social programs. A lack of surplus dollars to pay down the national debt helps keep mortgage and credit-card rates higher than they should...
...that obstinate streak scare Condit, leading him to end what Levy cautiously described to close friends as a "passionate" relationship? Was she pregnant, her condition threatening Condit's political career? Did she run away to Brazil, Greece, Singapore? We may never know...
...give away their hard-earned tax receipts: Find "spending priorities" that Americans would have preferred to $78 billion in tax cuts for 2002, and convince them to take their remorse out on the Republicans. (The Dems don?t have anything specific yet besides the Social Security surplus scare, but Dick Gephardt will be waving a list before long...
...looming in the shadows of last week?s PPI. The Consumer Price Index, of course, is the inflation number we can spot at the mall, and with discount wars festering across the retail scape, it?s hard to imagine July prices doing anything levitationary - at least not enough to scare Greenspan into cutting out the rate cuts August...
...inclined, should have absolutely no reservations about cutting short-term interest rates August 21 when the Fed meets again, and his seventh cut of the year should bring the Fed funds rate down another quarter-point notch to 3.5 percent, or - if he wants to scare us - 3.25 percent. The bad news - and this is the least certain, mind you, of the bad news we got this week - is that some folks are starting to make noises about? DEFLATION...