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...rise, banks like Bank of America and Bank One, which have below-market PEs, should rise as loan demand and credit quality improve. And it may pay to think small. In general, small-cap and mid-cap companies have more attractive valuations. Focus on well-run mutual funds that invest in companies with market values of less than $5 billion. Two solid choices are CGM Focus and Armada Small Cap Value. Remember, eventually stocks will rally...
...Further up the risk spectrum, junk bonds can be an attractive option for picking up some income. The worst news on bankruptcies and defaults is already factored into junk-bond yields of 11% or more on many funds, which are the best way to invest here. But stay away from those laden with still troubled telecom bonds. Two quality junk-bond funds are Northeast Investors Trust and Pimco High Yield...
There was a battle in Jenin. It was real urban warfare, as a modern, well-equipped army met an armed and prepared group of guerrilla fighters intimately familiar with the local terrain. For both sides, Jenin has been added to the memories that invest the conflict in the Middle East with such bitterness. Because Jenin has become so potent a symbol, a new battle has broken out over what precisely happened there and what its wider significance will...
...rigueur for the Harvardian intelligentsia to scoff at supply-side economics. But tax cuts are not the sinister sires of deficits that liberals claim they are. Low taxes provide incentives to work, save and invest. That means growth, and growth coupled with fiscal restraint means higher tax revenue. For evidence, one need only consult the historical record. Between 1961 and 1968, following the Kennedy tax cut, the economy grew by 42 percent and tax revenue rose by a third. The Reagan tax-cut, so fashionably maligned, brought a similar boom. The deficits of the 1980s resulted from spending run rampant...
Only by reforming Social Security can we avoid this Scylla and Charybdis. Workers must be allowed to keep some of their payroll taxes to create optional personal retirement accounts. Invested safely in bonds and blue-chip stocks, these accounts would earn higher returns than the current program. And allowing baby boomers to invest for retirement now would greatly decrease the cost of providing benefits when they retire...