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...green jobs that cap and trade could help create would be a big employment sector--including production of wind turbines, pollution scrubbers and more. Obama and Clinton talk about spending $150 billion over 10 years to create millions of those jobs, but it's the sale of pollution allowances that would raise that money. No cap and trade, no jobs. That seems simple--but not to the campaigns...
...bill if it moves to the right in search of votes. (The bill's champion, Senate Environment Committee chairman Barbara Boxer, has vowed not to let that happen.) McCain hasn't embraced the bill, even though he has a real record on the issue. He and Lieberman sponsored cap-and-trade bills in 2003, 2005 and early 2007, when most Senators were missing in action. During the primary, he downplayed that history--a necessary strategy perhaps to secure the GOP nomination. Now that he effectively has it, he could use Lieberman-Warner as a way to woo independent voters...
...original version of this article incorrectly stated that Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are co-sponsors of a cap-and-trade environmental bill being sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Warner. Neither Clinton nor Obama is co-sponsoring the legislation, though Clinton did vote for the bill in committee. Also, the story originally stated that 25 U.S. states get a quarter or more of their electricity from coal. While true, that statistic understates America's coal dependence: those 25 states get half or more of their electricity from coal...
What should you do? Rebalance, for starters. Any exposure you have to gold, oil and other commodities may have grown too large. Ditto for emerging markets and small-cap stocks. But big-cap U.S. stocks (especially in health care and consumer staples) may have shriveled too far. Real estate may have shrunk as a part of your portfolio too, but because most investors are homeowners, they already have a stake in that game. By all means, stick to your dollar-cost-averaging regimen, whereby market volatility actually boosts returns because you automatically buy while prices are down...
...cash for more than six months. One good option, says Bernstein, is Treasury bonds, which on a total-return basis have outperformed stocks in five of the past eight years--a first since the Depression. He believes that trend will hold this year. Bernstein also likes stocks of large-cap companies and, as a play on the weak dollar, foreign stocks that pay a dividend (in euros or yen). Consider MFS International Diversification, which recently had a 12-month yield of more than 5%, or Wisdom Tree International Dividend, an exchange-traded fund that recently had a net yield...