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What's the psychology in the professional investment community now? Are the pros as scared as the general public? Everyone is maximum conservative. The amount of money in money market funds is about half the aggregate value of the S&P 500. That's an unbelievable ratio. Even in hedge funds, which are ordinarily leveraged [i.e., more than 100% invested], they are now less than 100% invested, in some cases less than 50% invested. So everyone is maximum defensive, which is basically good news because if the fundamentals turn, there's plenty of cash to get the market going...
...economy does get a stimilus lift, how will that play out in the stock market? I don't think the United States is going to grow faster than 3% at any time in the next five years. So we're not going to have the same kind of growth we had in the '90s, which was technology driven. And the decade we are currently in was really credit driven. As for this economy, I can't see where the big thrust is going to come from, so it's going to be a very slow growth recovery, and that means...
...databases, fusion centers allow access to multiple databases and sources of intelligence; the drug squad in one community can share information with the anti-gang task force in another, picking up on patterns that may indicate an emerging threat as gangs set up to move into a new market, or distribute new contraband, for example...
After a one-year 50% drop in the stock market and the fastest, deepest spate of job losses since 1974, Americans have a lot of data to support their sense that the country's economic house is crumbling. The last thing they want to hear is that the man charged with the reclamation project doesn't have a crew ready to start work...
...deal on a crisis that he was at least partially responsible for was a good idea," Brian Walsh, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, scoffed in a statement. "A more apt title would be Thirteen Weeks: The Senate Banking Committee Chairman's Time in Iowa While the Housing Market Collapsed." After the negative reaction, Crown Publishers backpedaled, saying a final agreement had yet to be reached and adding that if and when a deal comes about, the book would be more a history of bailouts than an insider's perspective and that the proceeds would go to charity. Dodd...