In related news from the NYT, Bush gets bored at yesterday’s Photo-Op economic summit. “He dutifully scribbled some notes as participants talked, looking as happy as a high school kid in trig class, and bounded out of his chair when Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill told him he could be excused.” Meanwhile, the Dow dropped 200.
Tag: DJIA
Don’t call it a comeback.
The stock market rallies almost 450 points today, but will it be enough to take the heat off Dubya?
Out of touch.
On a day which saw the stock market drop below 8000, Dubya (according to the Standard & Poors index, the worst President in 75 years) declares “the future’s gonna be bright.” Oh, good…I feel better already. As Time noted yesterday, “the President and congress appear to be zealously attacking corporate abuses the way Pilgrims would a dance hall. But get past the reformist posturing, and the proposed new laws add up to half-measures.