Today at the Fellowship, we discussed how we feel about reading soldiers’ names as part of our “Joys & Concerns.”
I think that, in addition to reading the soldiers’ names, we should read how the stock of various war-related companies is doing. For example, we should read the five-year returns on Halliburton, which to me looks like its stock price has risen 10-fold in the last five years.
Separately, (maybe it already exists but) I think there should be a “war”-index, which would work similar to the DJIA average works. The “war” index would be a composite of various companies with at least a certain gross revenue from the government or government contractors, e.g. Boeing.