Cheer up the old folks with a cup of tea, invent the cure for cancer, soak up that excessive production of beer, grow vegetables, whatever.

FORBES: Jobs Are a Cost Not a Benefit

The GOP Jobs plan also recognizes the enormous problem of excessive, runaway regulation, which increases the cost of production, and so further discourages it.

FORBES: The GOP Jobs Plan Vs. Obama's

Monsanto's limited safety research, excessive claims, and business methods which signal the possibility of controlling large parts of world food production through an unproven technology, have been exposed to public scrutiny by a wide range of well-informed critics.

ECONOMIST: Letters

In Crash Proof , I talked about how our economy suffered from the co-morbid diseases of asset bubbles, excessive debt and consumption, and insufficient savings, capital investment, and production.

FORBES: Further Fed Easing Writes The Dollar's Epitaph