This is political. They want Bush to make the same mistake his father did. They'll pin the negative economic news on him.
And he will probably do it.
Yeah, somehow it's not surprising that one of the consiglieri from the Clinton Mafia would want to wreck the economy so Hillary can get elected to "fix" it.
Yup, but this time it's "read their lips". Perhaps we should appoint deaf people to the treasury so that they can "read our lips".