---
title: "Increasingly, It’s the Economy That Scares Us"
description: "by Andrew Kohut for The New York Times"
date: "2002-07-14"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2002/07/14/increasingly-its-the-economy-that-scares-us/"
categories:
  - "Economic Conditions"
  - "Personal Finances"
---

# Increasingly, It’s the Economy That Scares Us

In the course of 24 hours last week President Bush gave a major speech calling for business reforms that will "usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America" and held a press conference that dealt more with Mr. Bush's conduct when he was a Harken Energy board member than with the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. Meanwhile,... [Complete story](http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/opinion/14KOHU.html)