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...equally possible, however, that the Man from Midland, the Crown Prince of Kennebunkport, the Smirking Wonder, will actually grab the brass ring come November. At which point my much-beloved classmates will have to invest in some serious grief counseling...
Letting people invest their own money, says Bush, will produce better long-term returns than keeping all Social Security revenues in the hands of the government. So he uses about half the Social Security surplus--roughly $1 trillion--to give young workers the right to divert some of their payroll taxes to private savings accounts. Workers could then invest this money in stocks and bonds...
...trying to invest around the weak euro, avoid companies with extensive operations abroad. Those tend to be consumer-product giants like Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble, typically thought to be defensive investments. Tech stocks fall into the same trap. Even those without European operations aim to benefit from business there. Your salvation may be in oil, natural gas and electric utilities. Although they've run up, these stocks look best from a risk-reward point of view...
...First, investment in private securities will not bring the benefits that its supporters have claimed. Both stocks and bonds are evaluated on the same scale of risks and return; to argue that stocks will continue to provide higher risk-adjusted returns than bonds in the future is to say that the market is frightened and overestimates the dangers of holding stock. The stock market's high returns over the last 50 years may have been unprecedented, but so was the recent rise in stock prices, which seems to indicate that investors have arbitraged away any misperceptions. Economists widely dispersed across...
Making matters worse, a lot of companies borrow funds to buy back shares, limiting their ability to invest in other opportunities and, increasingly, leveraging up to the point where their debt becomes riskier to the institutions that buy it. More risk requires more reward. So borrowing costs rise. This year Moody's has lowered the debt rating of 29 companies at least partly because of costly new buyback programs. All last year, there were just eight buyback-related downgrades...