If we are to toy with the Economy = Body shtick:
The economy is like a human being who has been kidnapped for ransom by madmen (Shadow Government takeover of America since Kennedy's murder);
The Madmen (fiat bankers and assorted neocon followers) don't give us the nutrients we need (wealth producing capital),
Instead they keep us alive with shots of adrenaline (debt, bailouts etc.)
Each time we get an artificial high, and then crash (like the markets for at least 8 years);
But before we crash the madmen give us another larger shot of adrenaline (further interest rate cuts, tax cuts, deficit spending).
We start to consume our own tissues to survive (selling productive capital to foreign investors, drawing down pensions, home equity and bank accounts).
Just moments ago, the madmen ran out of adrenaline (China speaking via Bill Gross saying that the jig is up)
And now "we" are going to die unless they free us (fat chance)
Neighbors bust in and kill the madmen (populist revolt);
or we somehow escape (The People through the Constitution reassert their Independence)!
Had we been free, or if we could only get free of the madmen we can get the nutrients we need from our own labor, and start to regain muscle mass (manufacturing) and cognitive function (the knowledge economy).
Until then we might have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome where we believe that the madmen only want the best for us (as some diarists seem to believe).