In the Stars
With the economy in a tailspin, does President Bush have to worry about his reelection chances?
Some people believe that he does. But one who doesn’t is Paul B. Farrell, a former Morgan Stanley executive from Santa Monica who goes by the name of “The Executive Astrologer.”
Despite today’s gloom, Farrell is predicting a major economic boom (he terms it an economic “spin-dry cycle”) stemming from the “conjunction of Uranus and Neptune.”
After analyzing Bush’s astrological charts, Farrell concludes that Bush has little to worry about. He bases that conclusion in part on the fact that “Jupiter sits in his second house of earnings.” Since Jupiter is an “expansive planet,” Farrell reasons, the economy will help, rather than hurt, the President.
“But I’m very well aware that I’m talking as a contrarian,” Farrell says.
Speaking of Predictions
One of the first “In and Out” lists for 1992 comes courtesy of The Socio-Economic Research Institute, a business and social trend-spotter in Rhinebeck, N.Y.
The “In” list includes such things as generic products, union activity, recession, civil war, pyramid sales, moonlighting and debt prepayment.
On the “Out” list is brand loyalty, upscale labels, recovery, 9-to-5 jobs and business ethics.
One item on the institute’s “Out” list is already out: “Soviet Union.”
Tour de Vietnam
Some people are expecting travel to open up with a flurry next year to Vietnam. If so, Fredy Champagne is ready.
Champagne, a Vietnam War veteran in Humboldt County, is organizing Vietnam Friends, a group tour operator that plans seven trips to Vietnam next year.
For the really adventurous, one trip will be a tour from north to south via Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Champagne said he’s encouraging riders who are interested to buy older, rebuilt motorcycles that they are willing to part with by selling them to eager Vietnamese bikers.
“We’re not trying to make money. We just want to have a Harley run and leave the bikes there. There’s practically no Harleys in Vietnam,” Champagne said.
Briefly . . .
A job a lot of people would want: The Optimum Human Performance Center in Santa Rosa has been looking for a “Director of Golf.” . . . The federal Resolution Trust Corp. says it is entertaining three bids for “Junk Bond,” a piece by noted artist Mitchell Syrop that the thrift cleanup agency inherited from the failed Columbia Savings & Loan in Beverly Hills. . . . UPS estimates that it delivered 18 million packages last Wednesday, its busiest day of the holiday season.
