DOUG ORR wrote:
>Trivia question number two. This may be one of those "urban myths" but back
>in the distant past when I was in graduate school, I was told about a study
>that found that there was a correlation between the lengths of women's skirts
>and the business cycle. About six months after skirt lengths start getting
>longer, recessions occurred, and about six months after they start getting
>shorter again, the economy starts to grow more rapidly.
This is a popular theory on Wall Street, though in application to the stock
market. It seems compellingly true - the 1920s, 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s,
compared to the 1930s and 1970s...
Doug
