Larry Dighera wrote:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:28:13 GMT, "Steven P. McNicoll"
wrote in
.net:


There is no improving of free markets. Whatever shortcomings you
might see in them, the "cure" is always worse.

Perhaps.

But it seems that Congress has recently influenced Halliburton to stop
"trading with the enemy" through it's foreign subsidiary as part of
the economic sanctions the US has imposed on Iran since 1997. I would
characterize that as an improvement.


Incidentally, I was surprised to hear that VP Cheney has over 400,000
shares of Halliburton options that are due when he leaves office in
2009. Isn't there at least a bit of conflict of interest there?

Those 400,000 shares were part of deffered compensation package from when he
worked there. Do you expect him to just give away $12.6 million dollars that
he earned?