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...Just as incoming treasury secretary Paul O'Neill had in his confirmation hearings before the same body last week, Greenspan doubted that a tax cut could come fast enough to salve the current economic malaise (Greenspan pegged growth as currently "close to zero"), but allowed that if things got worse, the tax cut might well do "noticeable good," and it might as well be "sooner rather than later"(a bone for his new president). And like his friend O'Neill, Greenspan put fiscal discipline above all else, suggesting that the tax cut be "phased in," along with provisions for reducing...
...Paul O'Neill: "I look forward to having this good man by my side...
...going online to network, day trade, date and prowl for sex. Ambitious start-up companies are churning out content to meet the billowing demand. Computer gaming has become a professional sport, with sponsorships, prize money and battles performed in public. "South Korea is a laboratory," says Daniel O'Neill, executive chairman of QoS Networks, a Dublin Internet company that plans to set up shop in Seoul next year. "You have a whole country that is a hotbed of Internet systems...
...Economically speaking, O'Neill is this Bush administration's Colin Powell - unimpeachably qualified and reassuringly pragmatic. He vowed Wednesday to continue Clinton's strong dollar policy, a semi-sacred cow on Wall Street, but his business/manufacturing background makes him sympathetic to trade deficits. He's brave enough to have once backed an energy tax, but quick enough to have disavowed that stance soon after getting the call from the Austin oilmen. In short, he's the kind of guy who can talk about a trillion-dollar tax cut without everyone worrying that George W. Bush has ordered all White House...
...Whether he and the supply-sider Lindsey will get along - and which of them will have Bush's ear on fiscal policy if they don't - is another question entirely. And neither O'Neill, Lindsey or Bush has given much public thought to the economies beyond American borders. But for the time being, people from Wall Street to Main Street just getting to know O'Neill can imagine him as sort of a Greenspan in street clothes, a Republican fiscal pragmatist who loves crunching numbers and getting his hands dirty, even if his plainspoken days may soon be behind...