Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (234903)	3/7/2002 10:46:56 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

LOL!! Definitions don't mean much.... I was speaking of the stock market decline and layoffs that began one year before Bush took office... Sure, the Republican Congress helped but Clinton did not get in their way. In fact, he helped lead the way towards budget surpluses. This is an outright lie. Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming into surpluses by the Republican Congress.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (234903)	3/7/2002 11:01:29 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769670

Definetely plenty of economic pain out there. Couldn't pin it on Bush, better deny it exists.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (234903)	3/7/2002 11:10:23 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Kenneth, The National Bureau of Economic Research decided that a recession started in March of 2001, and that makes it official. nber.org "The NBER does not define a recession in terms of two consecutive quarters of decline in real GNP. Rather, a recession is a period of significant decline in total output, income, employment, and trade, usually lasting from six months to a year, and marked by widespread contractions in many sectors of the economy."