Word: markets
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...solar power to energy efficiency is potentially poised to take off if Obama can pass carbon-capping legislation, as he has pledged - and many of those green jobs could come in the Rust Belt states that are bleeding manufacturing employment today. "What a cap does is open up the market and create a river of investment," says Steve Cochran, the national climate campaign director for the Environmental Defense Fund, which just launched a website to track the movement called Less Carbon, More Jobs...
...market can drop forever or at least it may seem that way. There is no point in sustaining the illusion that the market has to rise the way it did over the last several years. The economy may remain moribund and leave no reason for equities to rise...
...last few years have held out the promise that the market would go up year after year. This was never an assurance which could be kept. The people who made it took their cash out two years ago and live in an island off the south of France...
...United States currently faces an approximately 20 percent probability of entering into an economic depression, according to a Wednesday Wall Street Journal opinion piece penned by Harvard Economics professor Robert J. Barro. Drawing upon the financial statistics of 251 previous stock-market crashes and 97 depressions, Barro wrote that “the odds are roughly one-in-five that the current recession will snowball into the macroeconomic decline of 10% or more that is the hallmark of a depression.” Barro also wrote that he was skeptical about the effectiveness of the current federal stimulus package...
...there is a way of getting this done where we're driving down costs and people are getting health insurance at an affordable rate and have choice of doctor, have flexibility in terms of their plans, and we could do that entirely through the market, I'd be happy to do it that way," the president said. "If there was a way of doing it that involved more government regulation and involvement, I'm happy to do it that way, as well. I just want to figure out what works...