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A Sell Signal on the Pentagon

By James Pethokoukis

October 28, 2008 RSS Feed Print

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If Barack Obama is going to beef up our supposedly broken-down military if elected, then why is Wall Street suddenly down on the sector? Maybe it's because Barney Frank is talking about slashing the Pentagon's budget by 25 percent. (Efharisto to Max Boot at Commentary's blog.)

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