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...going to be a rocky time for stocks, how about bonds? Government bonds have a certain allure because they're super-safe. Then again, the yield is very low. For anybody that doesn't want to take on the risk in equities but also doesn't want to be in low-yielding government bonds, there is an alternative. Investment-grade corporate fixed-income securities, I think, are going to be a very good place to be, and arguably will be tops in total return for the next several years...
...index of leading indicators: in the past, the upturn in this index precedes the economy's upturn by as much as 12 months. So maybe it's telling us the recession ends 12 months from now. It could be earlier. But equity markets, historically, tend to hit their low not 12 months before the recession ends but four or five months. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...bombs like those commonly found on the F-16 jet, together with Hellfire missiles. And the hardware comes relatively cheap. The Reaper costs $10 million--chump change compared with manned fighter aircraft; the cutting-edge F-22 Raptor, for instance, costs nearly $350 million. The drones' relatively low cost is due mainly to the fact that they don't have a pilot--which may also contribute to the Pakistani leadership's tacit acceptance of the CIA campaign. "If we were sending F-16s into FATA--American pilots in Pakistani airspace--they might have felt very differently," says James Currie...
Several networks, betting that viewers want to give the Great Recession a big, cathartic bear hug, have announced new shows about the little guy struggling and the big guy brought low. On ABC's Hank, a CEO gets downsized; on Fox's Brothers, an NFL star goes broke; and on the same network's Sons of Tucson, a banker goes to jail for corporate crimes. (In Hollywood, they call that wish fulfillment.) The reality-show premises are even starker: "desperate" entrepreneurs plead for financing on ABC's Shark Tank; on Fox's Somebody's Gotta Go, employees of an actual...
...Bird. JetAmerica, a new low-cost airline, is scheduled to start service in July to four U.S. cities - Toledo, Ohio; South Bend, Ind.; Lansing, Mich.; and Melbourne, Fla. The new venture is starting small, flying just one Boeing 737-800, with plans to add new aircraft by July 2010. For now, the big draw is JetAmerica's fares: depending on the flight, the first nine to 19 seats will sell for just $9 each, with the rest of the seats sliding up in price to $199, depending on how quickly you book. No matter how low your base fare, there...