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...what the trigger-pullers will do - and the investors, big and small, that stand behind them. Tuesday the talk was of a panic selloff, Wednesday of a patriot?s rally. By Thursday the markets had been closed for longer than anyone alive could remember, and by Monday, the emotional graph seems to suggest, investors and their stock markets could be back to very nearly a rational state...
...knee-jerk market reaction - down, down, down with a clamor - only presaged the peanut-gallery response to what may be seen as one of the least popular Fed moves in a long, long time. Because while the steep-sloped graph of Fed rate cuts this year now shows a distinct leveling off - right smack in the middle of the weakest economic quarter in a decade - nowhere in the 200-word accompanying statement was any hint of why Alan Greenspan chose June 27, 2001 to ease off on the throttle...
...good bet - he's not done, even if the graph would seem to suggest he's getting there. Look for mildly clarifying speeches by Fed governors in the next week or two, and maybe an inter-meeting cut well in advance of the August 21 meeting if any of the rosy economic news that hit the Fed's desk Tuesday starts to reverse itself. But for now, look for a lot of wrinkled brows and even more wrinkled noses...
...would like to thank Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 for providing the graph that accompanied his article on grade inflation (Opinion, “The Racial Theory of Grade Inflation,” April 23). The graph, showing the percentage of students on the Dean’s List from 1921 until now, supports my argument rather than his, and my concern rather than his ho-hum attitude on the matter...
...graph shows that grades leaped upward remarkably in the late 1960s to 1970. They then remained at this extraordinarily high level and in the last 15 years have gone still higher. Can you believe a University with what looks like 90 percent of its students on the Dean’s List...