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...stands right now, we appear to be past the bust in the stock market - both the Dow and the NASDAQ are comfortably off their mid-March lows, and barring a new round of dire economic news, few market-watchers expect another big dip anytime soon. If that's the case, it's because companies have been furiously cutting costs and lowering production since winter in a struggle to return to some semblance of profitability, and investors, while not exactly rushing in - they've learned some lessons from the past year - have handed out some points for effort...
...post-bubble lifestyle comes into stark focus. The mod 1960s design rises up behind a gated drive, with surveillance cameras poking out from bushes. At the height of the bubble it was worth more than $25 million. Liens were filed against this property when his firm went bust in the early 1990s. Obara continued to frequent the house up until his arrest, letting it slide, like some Dorian Gray portrait of Japan's national psyche, into a state of advanced decay, with rust flaking off the exterior ironwork and bricks crumbling from the walls. A Maserati, a Bentley...
...Cribs follows rapper Sisqo as he takes a container of takeout Chinese into the bathroom (offering a demo of the bidet), strolls through the walk-in closet full of Sean John outfits (price tags still attached) and stops in a surprisingly conservative front room dominated by a gigantic classical bust ("Chicks like the head. 'Cause it's big"). Most important, in the massive kitchen, comes the requisite money shot of any Cribs: the fridge. The Thong Song bard opens the door, revealing no food more solid than mustard, and offers an indispensable bit of entertaining advice: "You got to have...
...heard a threat of a police bust and so it's really important to make sure people are out here," she said...
When the economy was going full tilt, investors extrapolated rising corporate earnings further into the future than any expansion had ever lasted. Dumb. Booms always bust. And now that the bust is here, shortsighted investors are acting as if there will never be another boom. Dumb squared. Early in a downturn, as now--not late in an expansion--is when you should take the long view in determining if a stock is fairly priced...