Word: digitalizing
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There's nothing more American than a second chance, and you're getting one right now. Interest rates that briefly hit three-decade lows last fall are tumbling anew, giving those who missed out another shot at dream mortgage rates, 0% financing on cars, and single-digit credit cards. Falling rates have a dark side: pitiful interest income on bank deposits and other savings. They could also signal economic malaise. So take advantage of the benefits...
...through an almost classic waterfall and are due for at least a decent rally for a while. Where I take issue with other people is in the longer-run outlook for equity returns. You have to be a wild bull on U.S. earnings growth to get even high single-digit numbers out of the S&P 500 over the next five to seven years...
...Japanese have stoically endured recession, do-nothing politicians and the male makeup craze, but even a conformist society has certain hot buttons that are better left unpushed. Last week's launch of a computerized national ID system, which tags every citizen with a unique 11-digit number, triggered vehement protests throughout the country by those who fear Big Government is getting an efficient tool to invade their privacy. Some local prefectures refused to go along: Yokohama, the country's second-largest city, made participation voluntary, while three other municipalities opted out. Similar ID-card networks are being introduced in Malaysia...
...Japanese have stoically endured recession, do-nothing politicians and the male makeup craze, but even a conformist society has certain hot buttons that are better left unpushed. Last week's launch of a computerized national ID system, which tags every citizen with a unique 11-digit number, triggered vehement protests throughout the country by those who fear Big Government is getting an efficient tool to invade their privacy. Some local prefectures refused to go along: Yokohama, the country's second-largest city, made participation voluntary, while three other municipalities opted out. Similar ID-card networks are being introduced in Malaysia...
Edward Leamer, director of economic consultants at UCLA Anderson Forecast, thinks Scheid and others like him will be disappointed. Leamer is a bubble believer who expects rising interest rates to sock anyone with grand plans for double-digit housing gains in coming years. "In buying a home now, people should be acting like there will be no appreciation," Leamer cautions. "Don't be building cockamamy ideas about how this market is going to go up forever at 15% a year...