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...increase, following an 11-point hop the month before. Says Redbook analyst Steve Marotta: "Consumers went from the ostentatious '80s, making sure that they had somebody's name on their pocketbook, to the '90s, when they pulled in the reins. Now what we are seeing is the result of pent-up demand...
...defense was just not going to be denied. All week long, seniors linebacker Monte Giese, adjuster Chris Pillsbury and Santos had spoke of the frustration of losing to Yale. The release was a psychiatrist's dream: the defense unleashed everything it had, three years of pent-up anger...
...candidates have proposed more spending and incentives for infrastructure and technology, which has boosted some stocks in those categories. But the overall market will probably stay in a holding pattern until Nov. 3, says Roger Servison, retail-group president at Fidelity Investments. Says he: "There's a lot of pent-up demand building out there...
...most of the activity has been generated by home purchases. Prospective buyers accounted for more than two-thirds of all mortgage applications in March, compared with 27% in February. "There's a lot of pent-up demand out there," says Hugh Kelly, director of economic research at the New York City real estate firm Landauer Associates...
...equity of it (the rich have already had their top tax bracket cut from 70% in 1980 to an effective 34% today), you have to wonder whether a broad capital-gains tax cut would really serve to jump-start the economy. Wouldn't it loose an awful lot of pent-up selling pressure on the real estate and stock markets? If the tax were cut, my own first thought wouldn't be "Great! What can I buy?" It would be "Great! What should I sell?" And one thing we don't need right now -- ask any banker hanging...