New Year Predictions

We fully expect that when this investigation is "completed' ...

Florida is not the only government investment pool to have acquired assets linked to subprime mortgages, but it is the only one to have suffered a run, for reasons unlikely to be clear until the investigation is completed.

... it will be concluded that someone talked.

And while we're making predictions, we'll go out on a limb and predict that this --

Spokesmen for Bush and Lehman Brothers said Bush's consulting work had nothing to do with the sales of the securities to the Florida investment pool.

...will be exposed as a "misstatement" (in normal life, that's known as a lie).