Then again, Bush launched the Gulf War partly to distract from recession
talk and his falling popularity back in 1990.
-- Nathan Newman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:57 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9394] Good News?
from SLATE:
>An op-ed in the NYT says a sinking Nasdaq could squelch U.S. intervention
>abroad. With our economy slowed, Americans may
>suddenly ask if we can afford foreign missions. Also, we don't look so
>powerful anymore in foreign eyes. Says one Wall Streeter, "Look, the
>Nasdaq is America's Viagra -- without it, we just don't feel quite so
potent."
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
