NYT Says Dallas Ain’t What It Used To Be
An alert FBvian points us to this NYT story about the recently wealthy Russians. It includes this line:
Fueled by an oil boom, the Russian capital seems as awash in cash as Dallas was in its heyday.
Well, I guess it’s nice to be a benchmark. But with oil hovering at around $100 a barrel, the Barnett Shale booming, and local hedge funds plugging along, isn’t there still plenty of cash around here? Isn’t there a crane on just about every corner? And when was this heyday, anyway? IJS.
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If Dallas was suffering financially in the aftermath of the Bush years, I doubt that he and Laura would be planning to move here. But then, perhaps that clueless provincial NYT snark was planted in an effort to spare us locals that looming post-administration misery, the very thought of which has already sent Rod Davis to Alabama and Paul Kix to Boston and Nancy Nichols to sunrise ceremony breakfast wine tastings.
Well, given the state of both the Time’s rep and its stock, maybe they know something about heyday