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What if our economy doesn't grow at the rate of South Korea's, or even 2 percent a year, but stagnates, or, God forbid, goes down despite all the cutting of taxes and trees, and racking up of deficits?
But I'm not nervous about it dropping--I worry when Microsoft stock stagnates, particularly when it stagnates at a high price . Now it seems backward to judge a company's success directly by its stock price.