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...partly a knee-jerk reaction to higher rates. But equally important is the massive portfolio shift from old-economy stocks to new-economy stocks that I wrote about last week. Investors are dumping anything that hasn't done well to chase high-flying tech stocks. Financial-services mutual funds are getting hit with redemptions; fund managers are selling bank stocks to pay off departing shareholders...
...immediate concern is to stop the nuclear buildup on both sides and develop mechanisms that minimize the potential for nuclear warfare between the two countries. Remember, while each side has a collection of nuclear weapons, they have little by way of structures and procedures governing their use - mutual surveillance systems, hotlines and all the other comprehensive mechanisms developed by the U.S. and the Soviets during the Cold War to avoid a nuclear confrontation...
...understand that improvements in our lives can come only through cooperation and reasoned persuasion. Since undergraduates occupy at best a marginal role in the decision-making process, the administration must welcome and seriously consider student reactions to policy changes. Dean Lewis' response to this petition does not respect the mutual obligations necessary for cooperation between students and administrators...
...stay diversified. If you invest in mutual funds, keep something in overseas funds and small-cap and large-cap value funds along with your aggressive-growth holdings. If individual stocks are your thing, five is a minimum, and be certain they are in different industries. Look for value. Depressed bank stocks are bound to rally after the Fed signals that rates have risen enough. When will that be? Probably when the NASDAQ finally cools...
...accompanies and fuels the rise of divisive, sectarian politics--one remembers Slobodan Milosevic boosting his power by exploiting the 600-year anniversary of a Serb defeat. Rather than looking to the past to gain wisdom, such approaches rub the public's wounds with the salt of past misdeeds, breeding mutual antagonism and hostility. While politics and race relations are thus contaminated, little progress can be made; cooperation to solve present problems is neglected in favor of zero-sum battles to exact compensation for yesterday's crimes...