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...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...
...situation in Peru is delicate. Although Fujimori was able to reduce national hyperinflation in 1990 to the current 3.7 percent, it came at the price of huge unemployment--over half the nation's working-age population lacks a steady job. Toledo, a shoe shiner who later trained as an economist at Harvard, has been able to gain popular support by focusing on the nation's impoverished masses. Such sanctions would seriously undercut Fujimori's already dwindling support base...
...pour in, so did allegations that many ballot papers had Fujimori's name preselected or opposition leader Alejandro Toledo's name cut off, as well as claims that people were accessing the electoral commission's computer system from Internet cafes and tampering with results. Toledo, a Harvard-trained economist who had jumped in a matter of weeks from about 5 percent support to win more than 40 percent of the vote, had called for a "peaceful rebellion" in the event that Fujimori would claim a first-round victory. Now, however, he'll have to steel himself for a bruising title...
...Peru's politics have traditionally pitched a white oligarchy against the indigenous and Mestizo masses," says McGirk. "But Fujimori wasn't a member of the traditional elite, either. In the end, it may be a combination of Toledo's impoverished background and the fact that he's a respected economist that gives voters hope that he'll be able to understand their problems and help them...
...give up on the dream, Fujimori has succeeded in conjuring up a third presidential bid even though his constitution only allows two. But Peru's voters didn't play along in Sunday's election, denying Fujimori a majority and forcing him into a runoff against Alejandro Toledo, a liberal economist whose support stood at only 4 percent some four weeks ago. Lima was wracked by protests Monday as Toledo supporters marched on the presidential palace accusing Fujimori of rigging the polls - a charge that may resonate internationally, after the U.S. government last month endorsed a report by the Carter Center...