By 1987, the $4 billion translated into $12 investment per person.

How fast the new era of good feeling will turn into big investment and trade numbers is another question.

A goal would be to push more spending into investment, public and private.

Not that it really did turn, for he promptly went into further investments.

"Our idea is to turn subsidies into investments," he said.

But less than a quarter said they had moved money into safer investments.

Take some profit off the table and put it into more conservative investments.

And these people are putting a greater portion of their money - 51 percent - into such investments.

The deficit, he said, was cutting into private savings and investment.

When you come up short, let the pressure build and don't dip into your savings or investments.