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...fourth quarter's huge expected gain a bit less meaningful, but it's still a factor in the market's future. "Even though a child can figure out that the year-over-year numbers are going to surge from a depressed base of a year ago, the fact that some market makers feel it is important must make it important," noted strategist David Rosenberg at wealth manager Gluskin Sheff in a Monday report to clients. Such is the power of market psychology...
...differences in the American life experienced between races are not simply the derivatives of wealth inequality. In fact, this wealth inequality is derivative to complex historical and social influences that cannot be corrected for simply with an evaluation of one’s social and economic status that devalues race. Socioeconomic affirmative action considers metrics that encapsulate only part of the experience of being a minority in America...
...This fact is served by asking whether a minority and a white person of nearly identical social status and wealth are treated the same way by society. The answer to this question is seen all around us in very tangible forms, from reports of spikes in racial animus toward the president, as documented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, to reports of continued racial discrimination in the workplace...
...little to solve the problem of maintaining diversity and meritocracy in schools–and may even aggravate it. Even in a society with no wealth inequality between races, the experiences between races will be different—how we perceive each other and various historical influences make that fact unavoidable...
...Tsvangirai said in Harare. "We have papered over the cracks and have sought to persuade the whole world in the last eight months that everything is working. Now is time for us to assert and take our position as the dominant party in Zimbabwe. We are guided by the fact that we are the trustees of the people's mandate and therefore the only one with the mandate to remain in government." (See pictures of political high tension in Zimbabwe...