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...Paulson did not use those words when he went on TV a few days later - probably because he was afraid of provoking widespread financial panic. But that risk needs to be weighed against the risk that no one will panic...
Biehl wrote that her concerned eighth-grader asked, "We don't have any stocks, do we, Mom?" She said she soft-pedaled any concerns about his college fund to stop the panic. Biehl, whose parents filed for bankruptcy when she herself was in college, wrote: "I briefly explained that it's all cyclical." Still, on the Monday of the vote and subsequent market crash, Biehl took a look at her 401(k) and discovered she had lost $6,300. "But then I thought, I have still doubled my money since I first started investing and - as I wrote...
...Full Protection Every generation endures an event that reinforces the importance of federal guarantees on investments and savings. Your event just happened. But those guarantees have limits. So if you have a lot of cash with any one financial institution, you may not be fully protected. Don't panic. Just spread your assets around to as many banks or brokerages as necessary. In the case of a trust, naming multiple beneficiaries can do the trick as well...
...there are many reasons mass-market business reporters might not answer this question of degree. Maybe nobody really knows. (In which case, they have an obligation to say unambiguously: nobody really knows.) Maybe they fear creating a panic, and at the same time fear not having anticipated a disaster if it happens, so they cover all bases, leaving their audience confused in the process...
...executive branch has to offer. The Patriot Act and the Iraq War are a couple of recent examples, and the trend continues today. The current financial crisis is an issue that strikes at the hearts—and pocketbooks—of every American, and is sending Congress into panic mode again. It seems that few predicted a worsening crisis after the subprime bubble months ago, listening to President George W. Bush’s serene conviction that everything was going smoothly, and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s repeated assurances that, “It?...