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...markets, who after hearing the Fed?s Robert Frost recital glumly sold off the Dow and NASDAQ into the newly restated unknown, restating their own frustration: Businesses aren?t saying when business will pick up. The Fed, perhaps a little gunshy after misfiring both at the top of this cycle two springs ago and the bottom last fall, isn?t saying either. The White House is sunny as heck, declaring that capital investment will be back by spring, to the tune of 3.2 percent GDP for 2002 - but they need it too badly to be believed...
...NASDAQ-cracking spring of 2000 taught us anything, it?s that it?s perfectly safe, even smart, to use the words "boom" and "bubble" interchangeably. And when it comes to the housing boom, well, the pins are out, and ready to poke a hole in the whole thing...
...boomers have enough money for retirement is to allow them to divert about a sixth of their payroll taxes into the financial markets in search of higher returns. Most Democrats say such a roll of the dice could create a new generation of aged poor--and the Dow and NASDAQ have recently been acting like Democratic allies. So the party dug in its heels last week, as Senate majority leader Tom Daschle called the report "biased, misleading and flat-out wrong." That brave stand masks a weakness. Party leaders privately admit they can no longer count on their members...
...Dot.com closings get a lot of attention, but they don't affect the way people use the web. A recent Pew survey showed that only 8% of web users say a favorite site of theirs has bit the dust. And a report by Forester research says that despite the Nasdaq swan dive and the VC drought, people spent $45 billion online last year, and they predict that figure will reach $75 billion this year. By my calculation, that's $75 billion more than was spent on the Internet, oh, ten years...
...wound up notching 120 points. But don?t get used to it. Wall Street has lately begun to crow about this being "the bottom," and they may have a point. After racking up its worst July in a long, long while, NASDAQ still hasn?t budged since April and seems to have settled in around 2,000. The Dow may be doing the same thing somewhere in the 10,500 range. But bottoms don?t change into bounces just because they?re been at bottom for a few months - the whole decade of the '70s was a bottom, practically...