Taxing not corporate profits but consumption or even better land rental values.

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Second, Stiglitz says that the Fed hopes that lowering interest rates will increase stock values and lead to increased consumption among stockholders.

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Some, including Bernanke himself, argue that rising asset values drive up confidence that bleeds into the very consumption that the Keynesians at the Fed presume to be the source of economic growth.

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Were house prices actually to fall across the board, it seems safe to assume that, at the very least, consumption that was paid for by borrowing on the back of rising property values would evaporate.

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