Word: fears
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...Last week, the Big Fear gripped Silicon Valley big time. The always-optimistic entrepreneurs who thrive out here came down with a major case of the Pessimism Flu. The contagion was traced to a special meeting called by Sequoia Capital - the blue-chip venture firm - whose brains and money are behind just about any start-up of consequence. The message the VCs gave their young start-ups? Get profitable...
...people who disagreed with Obama over abortion rights. I met people who won't vote for him because they fear that he'll raise their taxes. Sarah Roy, an Obama supporter who owns a scrapbooking store in Warrensburg, told me that her husband is in the military; he plans to vote against Obama because McCain is a fellow warrior. In other words, if Obama - a first-term Senator with an exotic name, liberal politics and a thin résumé - doesn't win, it will be for a lot of the same reasons other Democrats have lost, including...
...surprise, with 20/20 hindsight, that stocks held up as well as they did for as long as they did," says Bob Doll, chief investment officer for equities at BlackRock. "At the end of the day, lower-quality credit and stocks do have some things in common." The fear that has made investors shy away from all but the safest of debt finally moved on to the next logical step: fear of stocks, which inherently are riskier investments...
...governments to guarantee short-term interbank loans. "Recapitalization by itself won't fix the interbank lending market," says Roger Craine, another Berkeley professor and a former Federal Reserve economist. The big problem now is that banks are unwilling to let go of their money because of counterparty risk - the fear that the borrower may go under, sticking the bank with the loss. "If the bank you lend to has assets in a hedge fund that goes under then they are likely to go under," explains Craine. A coordinated interbank debt guarantee by governments would temper that fear of lending. There...
...markets have gone completely crazy and are reacting in fear to a bad situation in a way guaranteed to make it far worse," says Marc Touati, deputy executive manager of the French economic- and finance-research group Global Equities. "We once had 'irrational exuberance' pushing markets ever higher; now we have irrational pessimism running them into the ground. People have to calm down, or we're in for big trouble...