Yes, President George W. Bush was telling reporters, there is absolutely no doubt that Vice President Dick Cheney will beat the allegation that Halliburton Corp. cooked the books while he was CEO. And as for that slide in the stock market, chalk it up to a "hangover" from the Roaring Nineties (when Someone Else was in charge). According to a Bush adviser, the President is focused on the big picture and is "relatively uninterested in the daily economic ups and downs." Would that include the 390-point implosion in the Dow last Friday, which sent stocks hurtling through post-9/11 lows to levels...
Wall Street's Verdict
While Washington dithers on reform, investors are pushing the stock market down, down, down
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