“In the long run, there’s no capitalism without conscience. There is no wealth without character.” I dunno, Mr. President…you seemed to do pretty well for yourself. In his much-anticipated speech yesterday, Dubya tried to put the brakes on the Wall Street sell-off and quell the growing questions surrounding his own stock shadiness (timeline here.) Needless to say, it didn’t seem to work.
Category: Dubyanomics
Well, that explains it.
The Post finally tracks down the source of the (recently) oft-repeated Bush quote about only balancing the budget in times of war, recession, and national emergency…and it was said by Gore.
That didn’t take long.
Only a year after Dubya’s tax buyoff, the government is in deep.
Trouble ahead.
Paul Krugman worries aloud about Rovian economic policy, while Tom Oliphant preps for an economic train wreck.