It’s hard to get away from the troubled economy these days.

From the president’s stimulus package to the automakers’ bailout to the effort to reduce home foreclosures, there’s no shortage of worrisome economic news and chattering policy wonks assigning blame and offering gloomy predictions.

But enough with the Washington think tank talking heads and partisan political pundits — they get more than enough time to make their opinions known.

Now it’s your turn. Pretend that you are the president. What would you do to fix the economy? What is the single most important area for the nation to focus on in order to reverse the recession?

The coming year will herald some dramatic political, economic and social changes between and within the world’s nations. How the United States positions itself and reacts to those changes will bear heavily on its role in the world when the recession recedes and prosperity resumes.

Tell us what you would do as the most powerful person on the planet by posting a comment below.