Solving Bush’s Oil Crisis: W. must go short to reclaim the investor-class vote.
Date: Sunday, August 29 @ 12:43:41 PDT
Topic: Consumption; Demand; Prices
Thirteen years ago Papa Bush employed a similar tactic during the Persian Gulf War. Oil prices crashed.
Sometimes politicians have to act like short-term traders and weigh in when least expected. In the political mind’s eye of the investor class, a government action to short oil would make a whole lot of shareholders willing to go long Bush.
National Review
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