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...wiggle room to get more or less aggressive. Right now it pays to play things safe, says Richard Bernstein, chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch: "There is nothing wrong with cash." Yet be warned: yields on money-market funds and bank CDs are low and going lower. Don't plan on holding lots of cash for more than six months. One good option, says Bernstein, is Treasury bonds, which on a total-return basis have outperformed stocks in five of the past eight years--a first since the Depression. He believes that trend will hold this year. Bernstein also likes...
...matter how much it looks like the end of the world, the end never really comes. Those who stick to a plan and grab bargains when others leave them behind reap the best long-term rewards--whether their friends are with them...
...LAWRENCE Outdated dam-management plan...
...going to shake up the market," he says. Branson expects Virgin America to be profitable within two years. He has done this before: both his British and Australian airlines opened to wide skepticism, and both are profitable billion-dollar businesses. He is now laying out a flight plan for the next great American airline...
...four issues in the world today that can only be addressed collectively, cooperatively and through international institutions. "We have global financial flows, but we do not have any form of early-warning system for the world economy," he says. "We have environmental catastrophe, but we have no capacity to plan, finance and act globally. We have failed states and terrorism but we've got no organizational ability to deal with reconstruction, stability, peacekeeping and humanitarian work. And we've got a growing popular participation in the big issues of the day, but we don't have any forum for dialogue...