Word: markets
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...Depending on how an accountant would value the equity that the Treasury will get in Detroit, the federal government will put $40 billion into the U.S. car industry and that number could go higher if the domestic automotive market does not recover. The auto industry is selling fewer than 10 million cars a year after selling over 16 million just four year ago and under those circumstances no expense reduction will make the industry profitable...
...believe we will look back on the financial innovations of the last several decades with regret? -Francis Murray, Washington They almost brought our country down. The only guy who really called this right was Karl Marx. Marx understood what would happen if you let the market run amok. Of course, it was done by right-wing Republicans. They brought our nation to its knees, and we're not going to end up being a great power because of what happened...
...think that young people have been scared out of the stock market forever? -Brianna Morrissey, Columbus, Ohio Yeah, I think so. It became a mug's game. Unless we bring back the regulations that we had pre-Bush, unless we prosecute the bad actors, I think they should be scared. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Cramer's Jim Cramer? What person do you turn to for financial advice? -Edward Kaufholz, Winter park, Fla. There's a bunch of guys I really respect. I respect my friend Doug Kass, who had called the market's absolute bottom, 630 on the S&P. That was just an unbelievable, home-run call. I also still go back and look at what Peter Lynch wrote...
...While these are the obvious steps, it is hard to imagine them happening without the government leading the way with a comprehensive health-reform plan. Medicare and Medicaid programs are such large players in the health-care market that they can often force changes in the way the market works. But in the end, says Orszag, "everyone needs to hold hands and move together...