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It was a book that suggested the stock market would more than triple in the coming years, which it did not do, and was mentioned during Kevin Hassett's Senate confirmation hearing for the CEA job.
You read a book in 1999 about Dow 36,000. What happened?
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It was a book that suggested the stock market would more than triple in the coming years, which it did not do, and was mentioned during Kevin Hassett's Senate confirmation hearing for the CEA job.
You read a book in 1999 about Dow 36,000. What happened?
Sir, I think that one critic of mine once looked at that book and called it a youthful indiscretion.
And I think as youthful indiscretions go, it wasn't such a bad one.