Brian S. Wesbury is vice president and chief economist at Griffin, Kubik, Stephens & Thompson in Chicago. The former chief economist for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, he has ranked as the most accurate interest rate forecaster in both the Bond Buyer Index Rate Survey and The Bloomberg News and was rated in 1998 as one of the nation's top economic forecasters by The Wall Street Journal. Wesbury's work and comments have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, BusinessWeek, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report. A frequent guest on CNBC, he is a regular featured...