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...central problem of the international marketplace is simply put: "There's no clear growth locomotive right now," says economist David Hale of Zurich Kemper. In the past 20 years, we've got used to the idea that, at any one time, at least one of the world's three largest economies--the U.S., the European Union and Japan--would be doing fine, so that even if growth sputtered elsewhere, there wouldn't be a disaster. The global economy showed the virtues of asymmetry during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. Fiscal and monetary corsets constrained Europeans as they prepared...
...what is tech's record? I looked at it three ways, starting with the Waddell & Reed Science and Technology Fund. Since its inception on May 16, 1950, the fund has returned an average of 12.4% annually--echoing the 12.8% return of the S&P 500. The Kemper Technology Fund, which started in 1948 as, get this, the Television Fund, is the only other survivor from that era. Its returns modestly top the S&P 500 during the past 50- and 25-year periods...
...exercising what brain capacity you have offers some protection. While all the sisters show age-related decline in mental function, those who had taught for most of their lives showed more moderate declines than those who had spent most of their lives in service-based tasks. And that, says Kemper, supports the commonsense idea that stimulating the brain with continuous intellectual activity keeps neurons healthy and alive. (Of course, notes Snowdon, these activities are not absolute protectors. For some, a genetic predisposition may override even a lifetime of learning and teaching...
...another hunch turned out to be far more productive. When Snowdon and Kemper first read the sisters' autobiographies in the early 1990s, they noted that the writings differed not just in the density of ideas they contained but also in their emotional content. "At the time," he says, "we saw that idea density was much more related to later cognitive ability. But we also knew that there was something interesting going on with emotions." Studies by other scientists had shown that anger and depression can play a role in heart disease, so the team decided to take another look...