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...with Toys "R" Us, such frantic unwrappings have not gone down well in an increasingly skeptical marketplace. Strong doubts are setting in over whether cybershoppers will ever turn to Amazon for big-ticket items. "Beyond books, music and videos, it's unclear whether they have a sustainable business," says Alan Alper, an analyst at e-commerce watchdog Gomez Advisors. Which raises a horrifying prospect for all e-tailing: Is the poster child for the new economy in danger of being dragged under...
...ghost of Alan Greenspan even chipped in, maybe for the last time before November - housing starts plummeted 7.5 percent in July, way more than expected, and two other inflation measures fell similarly. Psychologically, investors have to be convinced now that Greenspan is on the sidelines - and that clears the way for an upbeat fall season...
...market-wide, it's not a real fear yet. Is Uncle Alan running us aground now, after so many textbook turns in his years at the helm? Nah. Greenspan gets the benefit of the doubt, for a while. But they're a real jittery crowd...
...relationship between politics and the stock market is overvalued. Peace, low mortgage rates, affordable gas and, yes, Alan Greenspan are way more important to investors than which party is in power. Yet every four years, after the Dems and the G.O.P. stake out the policy battleground at their national conventions, wags start in on how the market would fare under each candidate. Fun sport. But the Clinton years in particular stand much received wisdom on its head...
...matter-of-fact boilerplate that would have made Alan Greenspan proud, the attorney general declined once again Wednesday to appoint an independent counsel to look into the ways Gore filled his and Bill Clinton's coffers during the '96 campaign. No Buddhist temple. No White House coffees. No more "iced-tea Al" and those bathroom breaks. The probe, going nowhere, will continue that same route in-house...