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...caused, or at least deepened, by people doing smart things--tearing up credit cards, limiting purchases to stuff they really need. But when practiced in bulk, such level-headed frugality can shut down the economy. Friends, that's a risk you'll just have to accept. Let others prop up the economy if they can; you take steps to survive. Here...
...waiting for efficiencies to move outside the office and wired-everything technologies to mature. It happened after the Industrial Revolution, too. But when tech turns human, we're an ordinary economy, and one in an old-fashioned business-cycle global downturn at that. Tech has not been around to prop up America this fall, and so the rest of the world is sinking too. Rate cuts are coming in the spring - maybe sooner - but the NASDAQ is drowning in its own dashed expectations. Greenspan won't be able to save it until it saves itself...
...went into the meeting with a small bet on the cut, and the bias-only move is likely to eat up Monday's 200-point rally by week's end. The NASDAQ, meanwhile, will continue to mutter about its own issues, wondering only incidentally if the tech sector will prop the rest of the economy up or drag it even further down...
...caller reported a burning chair in Adams House. An officer determined the chair was a play prop and had just been made to appear as if it was burning. (10/29...
...help prop up its balance sheet, Amtrak is busy building its mail and express business, which hauls letters, packages and even freight for such clients as the Postal Service and UPS. Within a few years, that too could bring in a few hundred million dollars in additional revenue...