- the approaching end ( 2000 ) of an 8 year old aging Bull
- full economy that couldn't grow faster than 8%
- Triple Bubble caused by money pumping into
  Asian Crisis '98, Russian Crisis and y2k non-event
  by an insecure Fed Chairman.
- An ill timed revival of the oil cartel
- Internet tulip mania unpropitiously born  1999-2000
- Unhappy arrival of Oct. tax selling season
- a nasty re-election with an arrogant Vice President
  who insisted on counting nonexistent dimpled and
  pregnant figments of his imagination with complete 
  disregard of the law and of what effects his attempts to 
  jerry rig the election where having on a swooning stock   
   market.
- rising inflation compounded by rising health care due
   to 8 years of failure by this administration to try and  
  fix the problem; trying instead to sweep it under 
   a gravestone called HMOs and National Health Insurance,
   complete failures every where they've been tried.
- A misguided Fed Chairman, who is too old and slow to 
  keep his pace up: too late in raising rates and too late
  in lowering them.
  Lost in his own mutterings and mumbling unable to see 
   The Bubble in time because he created it and he was  
   inside it.
-And finally a President who has allowed the highest state  
 of taxation in 50 years to persist through a misguided
  belief in a the socialistic dogma that only redistribution
  of wealth can create wealth,