In a sense, the strategy worked: a housing bubble fed a consumption boom, as savings rates plummeted to zero.  The economic weaknesses were simply being postponed to some future date; the Bush administration hoped that the day of reckoning would come after November 2008.  Instead, things began to unravel in August 2007.
D’une certaine manière, la stratégie a porté ses fruits : une bulle immobilière a alimenté un boum de la consommation, alors que les taux d’épargne chutaient à zéro.