Speakeasy

Published October 28, 2008 4:00am ET



Sounds like it.”

–President Bush, when asked by a reporter Wednesday if anybody was “measuring the drapes”

“These are not serious investment strategies.”

–Greg Carlson, CEO of Minnesota-based Carlson Capital Management, likening predictions about how the election results would help the stock market to “research” that correlates market returns to football results or hemlines