As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is slowing and wages are going up, so the market will feel worse -- but people will be feeling better, |
Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp. |
Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts. |
It's a fact that these perceptions lag reality -- it's not terribly uncommon for the economy to be doing better and better when you get to election day, but people feel the economy's in a funk. The latest example of that was Bush's father. |
Really, the President was going to have to push to get it done. Others would have gone along, |
The stock market might be a variable, but I think it's totally trumped by other factors right now, |
The stock market might be a variable, but I think it's totally trumped by other factors right now. |
This is going to steamroll, |
This is going to steamroll. |
This problem with the President makes it even dimmer yet, ... He's hurt by this. No question. |
To the institutional investor, there's a lot at stake this year if Bush doesn't win re-election, ... There are a lot of different issues that make them nervous, but the one that the Democratic candidates have been talking about a lot is the tax cuts. |