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.
Ekonomické slabiny se jednoduše odsouvaly kamsi do budoucnosti; Bushova administrativa doufala, že den zúčtování přijde až po listopadu 2008.