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...equities and whether it will turn into a bear market, you first need to analyze the remarkably heady period that preceded it. Fearing deflation after the meltdown of tech and Internet stocks in 2000 and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board cut the Fed fund rate from 6.5% to 1%. The easy availability of low-cost loans triggered a dramatic rise in borrowing, which lifted the prices of all assets, including stocks, real estate, commodities, bonds, art and wine. As U.S. consumption boomed, the nation's trade and current-account deficits exploded. But when...
Eating locally also seems safer. Ted's neighbors and customers can see how he farms. That transparency doesn't exist with, say, spinach bagged by a distant agribusiness. I help keep Ted in business, and he helps keep me fed--and the elegance and sustainability of that exchange make more sense to me than gambling on faceless producers who stamp organic on a package thousands of miles from my home. I'm not a purist about these choices--I ate a Filet-O-Fish at McDonald's on the way to Ted's farm. But in general, I have decided...
...words, this can't go on forever. Greenspan has since delivered this message repeatedly, but markets paid no attention. Until, suddenly, they did. In a speech and question-and-answer session simulcast from Washington to conferences in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore on Feb. 26, the former Fed boss repeated his concerns about risk and mentioned in passing that a recession was "possible" in the U.S. later this year...
...words, this can't go on forever. Greenspan has since delivered this message repeatedly, but markets paid no attention. Until, suddenly, they did. In a speech and question-and-answer session simulcast from Washington to conferences in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore on Feb. 26, the former Fed boss repeated his concerns about risk and mentioned in passing that a recession was "possible" in the U.S. later this year...
...past few months,Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, has helped drive equities higher with his upbeat views on the economy. In his semiannual congressional testimony last week, the Fed chairman laid out a rosy scenario, predicting that U.S. growth would continue "at a moderate pace this year and next, with growth strengthening somewhat as the drag from housing diminishes...