And It Would Be Fair. Everyone Will

Over Time, There's A Very Close Correlation Between What Happens To The Dollar And What Happens To The Price Of Oil. When The Dollar Gets Week, The Price Of Oil, Which, As You Know, And Other Commodities Are Denominated In Dollars, They Go Up. We Saw It In The '70s, When The Dollar Was Savagely Weakened.

As More Money Flowed Through Washington And As Washington's Power To Regulate Our Lives Grew, Opportunities And Temptations For Graft, Influence Peddling And Cutting Corners Grew Exponentially. Power Breeds Corruption.

Obviously, Things Can Get Derailed, Particularly If, Which Looks More And More Likely, You Get A Blow-up Between Israel And Iran. I Think That's A Very Real Probability Now. But Barring Some Real Blow-up, The U.s. Economy Will Grow, After A Slow First Quarter, About 3, 3.5 Percent This Year, Far Better Than It Was In 2011.

Mr. Greenspan Did A Very Good Job In The Early 1990's. But Recently He's Fallen Prey To This Crazy Theory That Prosperity Causes Inflation. So They're Trying To Slow The Economy Down By Raising Interest Rates. It's Like A Doctor Saying You're In Great Health, So We Have To Make You Sick A Little Bit. It's A Bizarre Theory. It's Going To Hurt Our Economy.

Duarte Is A Moderate When It Comes To Civilian Control Of The Military And Curbing Death Squads. On Economics, The Man Is Almost A Marxist.