To: d:oug who wrote (62334 ) 12/30/2000 7:50:39 PM From: d:oug Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116753 Larry Lindsey and those two skeletons copulating in a White House closet. Bush Plans Economy Talks With Experts By CHRISTOPHER NEWTON The Associated Press WASHINGTON (Dec. 30) President-elect Bush... expressed concern ... the economy... heading into a downturn ... to collect advice from business leaders and economists. Bush will meet with the group Tuesday and Wednesday... Treasury Secretary-designate Paul O'Neill and Commerce Secretary-designate Don Evans ... Larry Lindsey, an economic adviser to the president-elect, will moderate the group... in the closed-door discussions ... participants will share their predictions - positive and negative. ... talk about the state of the economy ... will use whatever word they think is accurate, whatever word they think people need to hear... ... unless Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan attends. Fleischer did not say whether Greenspan was invited. ... recent comments by both Bush and Vice President-elect Dick Cheney that the country could be on the leading edge of a recession. ... focus on the point... ... a key issue in tracking... ... trade, promoting free trade... -Rod Paige, superintendent of schools in Houston, as secretary of education. -Gale Norton, a former Colorado attorney general, as interior secretary. Still to be filled... three Cabinet offices ... secretaries of labor, transportation and energy ... plus other major positions, including CIA director and United Nations ambassador. Date: 12/30/00 From: Le Patron of the Le Metropole Cafe To: dougak Reginald H. Howe has served commentary - The Dos Passos Table "White House Adventure: Opening the Gold Closet." "... will enter the White House with more detailed knowledge... and recent operating procedures than any new administration in modern U.S. history... keeping skeletons hidden inside White House closets is getting tougher..." "If skeletons rattle for George W. and his new administration, they are likely to come from a different and even more secret White House chamber: the gold closet." "... will be a window of opportunity to attract many Americans to the importance of the gold issue, other than "gold bugs." "Reg Howe articulates... in this well crafted essay." All the best, Bill Murphy Chairman Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.(GATA) and Le Patron LeMetropoleCafe.com