Well, we hope that we can shrink them and thus make life a little more predictable. And if we are lucky we might be able to fill in the recession troughs without shaving off the peaks.(posted 8589 days ago)Just because something is an "equilibrium" doesn't mean that it is good: there may well be better equilibria out there that could also be reached. An equilibrium is a point of stability, not necessarily someplace you want to be.