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...objective types (it helps if you haven't a dime to invest) have been fooled by the Big Board barbarians before, and while we were completely prepared to scoff knowingly at any Monday follow-up to Friday's misplaced giddiness, we weren't quite prepared to say it couldn't happen. Yes, it did seem that a sustained rally now, based as it would be on nothing at all, would make suckers of any who expected it to bridge the gap between now and THE RECOVERY, and what's more, the aformentioned recovery would be a lot better...
...Which will put a much-needed stop to both the prospect of the Fed saving us from the significant correction we all know we need, and the disappointment over the Fed's not having done so already. Businesses will invest again when they think they can do so profitably, and investors will do so profitably when they see businesses do it too. In the meantime, we're all be better off waiting for this to happen on its own, or else we'll just get stuck with a bunch of junk - be they overbought stocks or overbought goods - that...
...never one to do the expected. He took the hard way to stardom, with quirky portrayals in orphan movies. He may now be doing something even braver: anchoring serious or silly films with the haunting loneliness and eccentric rhythms that, even as a star, he can't shake. To invest his special gravity in nice-guy roles--this may be the strange quest and triumph of Nic the Nice...
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...might have touched enough laundered linens and walked on enough carpets to blow up my Palm and PC. In a universe where nothing from the speed of light on down is stable, not even a Palm Pilot can be relied upon with the kind of blind faith most users invest in it. Personally, I'll be handling my HotSyncs with kid gloves from...