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...polled stock analysts and found that together they believe the companies in the S&P 500 will earn $94.24 a share in 2009 in operating earnings. Not bad. By that measure, the S&P index has a p/e of 10.3, which is historically very cheap. Back in the late 1990s, the index...
...study, which was released earlier this year, Hopkins analyzed gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections between 1989 and 2006 that featured either a black or female candidate. Using three pre-election polls per candidate, Hopkins found that the Bradley effect was last seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In recent years, he said, the effect has gone away. “In the last ten years of elections, I can’t find any evidence that there’s a systematic difference in how candidates poll and how they perform in the election itself...
Once the plight of the refugees is addressed, a far more daunting challenge will face all the diplomats who are now speaking earnestly of a solution at last in eastern Congo, whose people have suffered through two wars and numerous clashes since the mid-1990s. Do all those parties with a stake in the Congo conflict - from the government, to the rebels, to the U.N. and a host of peripheral western powers - have the will to settle on a deal? And do they have the will to confront the government of Rwanda, a country scarred by its 1994 genocide, which...
...worry about my Maserati or my plane payments?" No. They call up and shriek about systemic risk. Come on. Investment banks have been going bankrupt for hundreds of years and the world has still somehow survived. This approach has never worked. This is what the Japanese did in the 1990s. They refused to let anyone fail. And they had zombie banks and zombie companies. The way the system is supposed to work is when we have bad times, the assets moves from the incompetent to the competent, and then the competent start with renewed strength and the system rebuilds itself...
...1990s, the major news networks and the Associated Press formed a polling consortium to cut costs, but this proved disastrous in 2000, when it declared the race for Al Gore around 8 p.m., switched to George W. Bush by 2 a.m. and left the race at "too close to call" by 4 a.m. An embarrassing computer glitch in 2002 prompted a switch to the NEP, which surveys early voters by phone, uses confidential questionnaires in the field and employs a diverse group of pollsters to ensure an accurate count. A leak of NEP data in 2004, however, prompted the creation...