7 Quotes by Leslie Alperstein

This problem with the President makes it even dimmer yet, ... He's hurt by this. No question.

Really, the President was going to have to push to get it done. Others would have gone along,

As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is slowing and wages are going up, so the market will feel worse -- but people will be feeling better,

The stock market might be a variable, but I think it's totally trumped by other factors right now,

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

It's a fact that these perceptions lag reality -- it's not terribly uncommon for the economy to be doing better and better when you get to election day, but people feel the economy's in a funk. The latest example of that was Bush's father.

Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp.