George Bush did not expect a honeymoon, but he did not get even the quiet Florida fishing weekend he had hoped for. Just after American voters overwhelmingly chose him over Michael Dukakis, the world's financial markets sent Bush a message of their own: the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 75 points, followed by the dollar's drop to near postwar lows against the yen. Investors who had sat quietly through candidate Bush's repeated taunts to Congress to "Read my lips -- no new taxes" decided that President-elect Bush had no convincing plan to cut the nation's towering trade and budget deficits. As...
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