Reply #14: Each time Shrub opens his mouth the market drops!

[54anickel]

Came across this article while research Soros and his shorting the dollar. It's an older on but there are more than a few good keeper lines in this one.

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/columns/businessclass/6259/

As former CEOs, Bush and his people have tended to see Wall Street as a means to an end: It's where you went to raise or borrow money for your company or a place to sell your stock. Bankers and brokers come and go, but they are, in the end, mere money changers. There was no need to understand their culture.

Bush and his men are corporate chieftains used to barking out orders in the dark-wooded coziness of their boardrooms. They are accustomed to creating fear, not managing it, which is why some on the Street pine for the days of Robert Rubin's more sophisticated market touch.

He and Rove are so obsessively mindful of the lessons of 1992, when Poppy remained disengaged from a floundering economy, that the son is following slavishly in his father's footsteps, delivering his own message: I care speeches. The problem is that Wall Street -- and nowadays that includes a lot of small investors, too -- doesn't care if he cares.