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...government - were the most soothing investments of all during the financial crisis. While stocks were losing more than half their value, 10-year Treasuries returned more than 10% during that May-to-March period. And so - big surprise - investors have poured $240 billion into bond mutual funds so far this year, according to the Investment Company Institute. Stock funds - despite a big rebound in stock prices since March - have taken in less than $15 billion. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...what will retail investors do once bonds have burned them too? Atteberry thinks many will just put their money in the bank. The trade-off there is a measly return: the highest savings-account rate in the land is currently just 1.83%, according to Bankrate.com and most banks pay far less. Less than inflation. But hey, at least the money's safe...
...Capitalism, he's back outside the gates of GM--which, after declaring bankruptcy, was far less solvent than Moore. Talk about the little guy triumphing over the system: somehow, in the past 20 years, the free-enterprise system has been kinder to the agitprop indie filmmaker than to his auto-giant adversary. A man who made his career attacking corporate America has become a pretty big business himself...
...Handshake is a greeting, an expression of trust, a mutual guarantee by two people that--at least in one hand--they carry no weapon. But it can also ensure a measure of distance and convey an articulation of reserve, as if its participants are thinking, Thus far and no further. A handshake is not a hug. There was little obvious warmth when Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas met, under the stern gaze of Barack Obama, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. The history of their nations is littered with too many...
...worked at a customer-service job. This makes it harder for people like Roshonda Crenshaw, who was quoted in your article. Corporations are using the recession as an excuse to accelerate negative labor practices. IBM, for example, has by one estimate laid off nearly 10,000 people so far this year, while recording huge profits and continuing to hire offshore...