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...might be on the horizon. And some Wall Street analysts are raising the possibility that capital spending from businesses - whose pre-explosion problems may seem a bit less serious now - could follow. If this is indeed a new world, some may be moved to take this opportunity to invest in it. Certainly the forces of rebuilding, of renovation are economic engines of their...
...nothing but good news for the economy as a whole. After all, here?s the scheme for the recovery, whenever it comes: Companies cut costs. Eventually they return to profitability. Prospects improve. Wall Street rewards them with increased stock valuations. They use the cash to invest in further efficiency and productivity gains so they can sell more for less, and voila! The business cycle is back on the upswing...
...other social programs. A lack of surplus dollars to pay down the national debt helps keep mortgage and credit-card rates higher than they should be. And all those great-sounding programs Bush and Al Gore argued about last year--giving a drug benefit to seniors, letting people invest Social Security money in the stock market--just got pushed further into the future...
OUTLOOK: U.S. stocks and bonds remain the best value for investors around the world. Housing remains strong. And interest-rate cuts are lowering the cost of capital, so businesses may start to invest again next year. Meanwhile, be patriotic and spend that tax-refund check...
...much power. "People are really just learning how vulnerable workers are under current employment law," Larson says. "Interestingly for the AFL-CIO, one of the reasons union membership has declined so dramatically is that the union representatives were unable to communicate that vulnerability, and workers saw no reason to invest in unions...