Monday, September 12, 2005

Blood Sport: the over/under on Iraq

A gruesome question will not leave me alone. What if an Internet bookie had an over/under line on the number of years it will take for U. S. troops to leave Iraq? I could not find any bookies laying odds after a cursory search. The financial markets must already contain information about the outcome of the war, but it's too darned hard to sort out how much impact the war has on asset prices.

An over/under line would recognize the blood sport element of the war along with its numbing and alienating effect. It might sharpen analysis too.

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