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...Washington Post and CNN, each of which has a big Web presence, to say nothing of countless nonprofit sites that are chockablock with the skinny on your Representative's latest vote. "I liken the new sites to the specialty stores you see at Christmas," says Preston Dodd of Web watcher Jupiter Communications. "You wonder what they'll do after the elections, let alone for the next four years...
There was little doubt for the generations of Americans that hewed to the teachings of Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, the legendary prophets of value investing. In the 1930s they preached that the price of a company's stock should be tightly pegged to its profits--the famous price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E, derived by dividing a stock's price by its earnings per share. The dividend yield (the payout as a ratio of the stock price) also mattered. On that basis, stocks have been getting increasingly expensive. The P/E of stocks in the S&P 500 index...
...value valuators are stirring again. The Graham and Dodd model is still relevant, and the siren song of momentum investing sounds like something heard before. "We had a similar problem in 1929," says Yale economist Robert Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance, which explores the perils of the present market. "People said then that the old standards for valuing stocks were irrelevant because we were in a new economic...
...demonstrators of yesteryear opposed military intervention in places like Vietnam, El Salvador and Nicaragua on the grounds that the real problem in these places was not communism but poverty. And the solution was not war but economic assistance. As Senator Christopher Dodd said in a nationally televised 1983 address opposing President Reagan's request for military aid to El Salvador, "We must hear the cry for bread and schools, work and opportunity, that comes from campesinos everywhere in this hemisphere." Well, it turns out that the best cure for the poverty the left so agonized about then is precisely what...
MARRIED. CHRISTOPHER DODD, 55, U.S. Senator from Connecticut; and JACKIE M. CLEGG, vice chair of the Export-Import Bank; in East Haddam, Conn. It is Dodd's second marriage...