Jim Rogers is a straighttalking man too. I saw him talking in TV (CNBC Europe show), and he said that if a recession is coming (and it is coming because everybody says so) let it come and clean the table, and after that the economy can start humming along again. It takes too long time to try to push it further with a series of rate cuts and printing more money for a "soft landing". After all that the recovery takes much more time. I agree.