Where we obviously agree is that neither candidate was compelling and we voted with
issues in mind. At this point, we're going to get one or the other, either of whom inherits
a crippled presidency, and a divided congress, and the current dilemma is the resolution
of which way we go with the least damage to the country.
And my portfolio.
We agree perfectly on this.
And my portfolio, too, if the train wreck that is my portfolio still deserves that name.
Anecdote, also occasioned by a social event, as was the one about the friend of Gore's.
Last week I also went to a small dinner party at which I sat next to an old friend who's a writer on business subjects and an editor of the Harvard Business Review. (He may be a former editor there; if he's left he's doing the same thing thing someplace or other.) (He lives in Boston and we hadn't seen him in a couple of years.) He said he planned to vote for Gore because Bush's economic policies will destroy the economy. He's a hard-numbers sort of guy and knows a great deal, especially about businesses (he analyses them) and knows a great many economists and writers on economics and business subjects. I was impressed by what he said. I will tell you who he is by PM, too. Oh, I'll tell you here. Remember the friend whose son goes to drama school whom I mentioned? This is her brother.
He could be right or he could be wrong. But I left aware of the fact that the notion that Bush's economic ideas are of necessity the ones best for our portfolios is subject to serious question by some very very smart people.
'Night, penni. And all. |
