Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what's going on here? There is no mystery about what caused the 1998 squeeze: company executives could not raise prices, no matter how much an increase might have been justified by rising costs, without losing market share to a host of U.S. and global competitors. The current rebound is more difficult to explain: competition is certainly no less keen, nor price boosts any less risky. But Abby Joseph Cohen, chair of the investment-policy committee of Goldman Sachs, gives much of the credit to corporate managers who have figured out effective strategies for prospering in that environment. To scratch...
That is the conclusion of TIME's Board of Economists, which met recently in Manhattan to assess prospects for the U.S. economy and stock market. And that opinion comes from Wall Street itself; on this occasion the board was composed of influential investment advisers, chosen to offer a different perspective from academic and corporate economists. The panelists disagreed considerably on the likely course of the stock market and the broader economy next year and after. But on the subjects of inflation and interest rates they chorused in unison: not to worry...
...sharp further rise in interest rates would be "a dagger in the heart" of the U.S. stock market, says Vincent Farrell, chief investment officer of Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell, an investment firm. But he believes the dagger is well sheathed: "Interest rates have probably about run their course." Abby Joseph Cohen, who chairs the investment policy committee at Goldman Sachs, is more emphatic. Says she: "I think yields on long-term bonds cannot move much higher and stay there on a sustained basis...
...only reason interest rates are even as high as they are now, says Charles Clough, chief investment strategist of Merrill Lynch, is "the bond market's proclivity to identify growth with inflation." But that proclivity, in the board's opinion, is simply wrong: there is no inflation threat scary enough to push the Fed into drastic action. Prices did spike abruptly in April, but that, says Clough, was due largely to a speculative rise in industrial commodity prices that "has already lapsed." Though Asian countries are starting to recover from the crisis that knocked demand and commodity prices...
Resnick does not seem to understand that the cornerstones of the modern university, tenure for professors and financial aid for students, are crucial precisely because of how they counteract the imperatives of the market. Somehow, perhaps from the fact that Harvard often looks like a breeding ground for investment bankers, Resnick has concluded that Harvard is a "business" and that he is a "consumer." Nothing could be more wrong. In short, a university's purpose is to educate students, not to "serve consumers...