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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...prosperous and peaceful. There was not enough challenge around (no Great Depression, no world war) to elevate Clinton to the top rank of presidents with FDR or Lincoln. When times are fat and everyone in the television ads from cabbie to widow seems engaged in wireless trading, building a portfolio, then the followers of the land may grow frisky and cavalier about their leaders. They indulge the conceit that Bill Gates or Alan Greenspan is much more important in the scheme of things than the President is. A lot of the American followership has grown almost jeeringly independent, confident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Occasion Rise to George W.? | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

There's nothing easy about it. So most people should never have had more than 20% of their portfolio in tech. If you had held utilities, food and energy stocks and real estate investment trusts with tech, you'd probably would have made money last year. And that brings me to another street rule: diversification works; it just doesn't work fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blame Game | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...little careless. You didn't rebalance your portfolio as tech stocks soared a year ago. Maybe you hung on to that dotbomb until it exploded, and then made things worse by running up your credit cards. Or while your investments were booming, you decided you could afford to save less. With stocks cratering and the economy slowing, you don't feel so flush anymore. It's time to get real and fix those giddy-times mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Slowdown: How To Navigate The Storm | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

Your goal is to move toward an all-weather portfolio that seeks the higher returns that stocks historically deliver but also includes enough bonds and cash to cover any financial obligations you expect over the next few years--for example, college tuition. Part of this process is ratcheting down your investment expectations. Having come through five consecutive years of stocks gaining more than 20%, we can now expect something closer to the 11% a year that stocks have averaged since 1926. So bonds and cash won't hurt as much as you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Slowdown: How To Navigate The Storm | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...Maryland's university system, educators credit K-16 outreach for a drop in remediation rates and a rise in SAT scores and minority enrollment. In a pilot program in Oregon, high school and state-college educators are redesigning college-entrance requirements so that admission will hinge on a portfolio of student work graded on a uniform scale. In the California State University system, 54% of freshmen had to take remedial math courses in 1998; the following year only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New College Try | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

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