Will Egypt Rock Our Economy?  Will the chaos in Egypt
reverberate here financially? Charlie Gasparino on how some
economists fear a return of 1970s-style "stagflation," and how
Chinese policy helps stoke it.  All the signs have been pointing
to a robust economy in 2011, from the president's pump-priming
cave on Bush-era tax cuts (as well as accompanying extension
benefits) to business openness to turning cash stockpiles into
expansion. The stock market has cracked the 12000 level, and
Republicans have been privately worrying that, in prodding Obama
into adopting more free-market principles, they inadvertently
saved his presidency.  Now comes the political crisis in Egypt
and you can almost feel the markets fret. Oil prices have been
edging up, the markets recorded their largest decline since
November, and even worse, the chatter among many economists has
raised the specter of global "stagflation," the economic
disorder that made the late 1970s and early 1980s among the
worst years for the economy since the Gr