“Global stocks plummeted Friday after the rout a day earlier on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average lost more than 7 percent,†with European markets falling more than 10 percent at the opening. On Saturday, President Bush will meet with “finance ministers from the world’s richest countries at an unusual White House meeting to swap ideas†as to how to address the global credit crisis.
Could any discussions about the global economy involving George Bush follow any script other than:
“Whadyou wanna do?”
(Shoulder shrug) “I dunno. Whadyou wanna do?”
(I hope you’re thinking “The Jungle Book” and vultures.)