May 19, 1999 Washington DC Tony Papert & Richard Freeman. At the height of the 1990's tech bubble mania, Executive Intelligence Review ran an amusing "ad" asking people "Does $10 million from prostitution = $10 million from the production of steel?". If you answered yes, then you had a future as 1) the dean of the Wharton School of economics 2) to become a U.S. Congressman (R-Disneyland) 3) for the Nobel Prize in economics. As Mr. LaRouche put it in an EIR article, "If anyone tells you that a rising Dow-Jones stock-market index proves that the U.S. economy is growing, your reply ought to be: "Oh, you mean that the cancer is growing. Tell me, Doctor: How is the patient doing?" Given the present circumstances of the people of most of today's world, that is not a cruel thing to say. It is something which any intelligent and honest person would consider it necessary to say under the rapidly worsening real-economic conditions in the U.S.A. today". Due to a bad re-recording, the last quarter of the presentation will occasionally glitch.