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...early May 2005, and alarm bells in Washington's media echo chamber were ringing. A leaked Pentagon report had warned that the strain of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars could crimp the Defense Department's ability to respond quickly to other conflicts, and pundits were fretting that China and North Korea could exploit the vulnerability. But flying through Asia in his Air Force Boeing 737, Admiral William Fallon, the man who had taken over the U.S. Pacific Command just two months earlier, wasn't ruffled. His command - with 300,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines - still outclassed the force Beijing...
...whether the dollar will continue its decline over the next several months, or whether the recent fall is a temporary blip. A sustained, larger drop would make U.S. exports more competitive and help reduce America's yawning trade deficit - but it would also stir up inflation, as well as crimp the profits of European firms and hurt economic growth there. It also risks bringing heightened volatility to world financial markets. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, for one, thinks that's a bad idea. "A strong dollar is clearly in our nation's best interest," he said last week...
This isn't to say that ethics-driven investing has to crimp your bottom line. Consider Winslow Green Growth, a small-cap fund that, as its name implies, specializes in globally eco-friendly companies. Winslow has returned an average 16.39% over the past five years, according to Morningstar, beating both the average SRI fund and market benchmarks like the Russell 2000 growth index and the S&P 500. Winslow president Jack Robinson is also earning a reputation as a savvy stock picker, green or otherwise. In its annual survey of equity funds, Barron's/Value Line ranked him the top manager...
...emerging markets or subprime corporate debt. Indeed, stocks and bonds in emerging markets, which soared when money was plentiful, now stand to lose the most - and not just because global liquidity is returning to normal. There is also a chance that a likely slowdown in U.S. consumer demand would crimp the economies of export-led developing countries. China and Mexico would be especially vulnerable, as would the rest of an increasingly China-centric Asian supply chain. Nor has the developing world become more self-sufficient. While pan-Asian trade has increased significantly since the late 1990s, much of the trade...
...International banking centers such as Hong Kong and Dubai will also be affected by language requiring all nations to not facilitate wire transfers relating to North Korea's missile program. That could crimp North Korea's ability to finance its weapons programs by selling conventional arms abroad. "It starts to put more pressure all along the supply chain and the financing of those transactions," says the State official...