{"We have a Federal Reserve that is starting to tighten up [and] raise interest rates because of a bogus economic theory that says that prosperity causes inflation. So unlike George [W.] Bush, I'm not sure I'm going to reappoint Alan Greenspan, if he's addicted to that theory. It's a destructive one. It has already done immense harm to agriculture in America. And if he continues in that course of action, it's going to do real harm to the economy."
Forbes would continue to flog this theme while stumping in Iowa--a dear echo
of William Jennings Bryan's populist rhetoric of more than a century before.}
Cited from UPSIDE Magazine, October, 2000
Forbes' campaign chest of $30 million soon was dwarfed by Dubya's $80 million.
The rest is history.
MONEY TALKS
