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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (36616)	9/13/2000 8:17:28 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

What do you think about what's going on in GB. Think the protesters are good guy tax opponents or Marxist thugs? Don't know what to think about it myself yet.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (36616)	9/13/2000 8:24:03 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Yes, that will be interesting. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing the equity market decline though. Will put an end to the mantra of the New Era thinkers that the price of oil doesn't matter anymore.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (36616)	9/13/2000 9:09:55 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

An inflationary jolt this winter delivered by an electricity price shock - on top of a possible heating fuel crunch - could compel the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks to drive up interest rates much more than expected. That, in turn, could provoke the precipitous fall in equity markets that many crash-minded Cassandras have been forecasting. And if that crash happens before the elections, that should make the voters just LOVE the "social security MINUS" plan that Duh is parroting...