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...great financial question confronting the American people lately has to do with their withered investment portfolios. After the government's huge stimulus package, there is a sense of relief that the financial crisis seems under control, but there is also a lingering suspicion that economic malaise may be here to stay, even if big outfits like the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development say otherwise. (On Wednesday, the OECD joined the list of optimistic forecasters, saying that economic growth would return in 2010 and be better than the organization had expected just three months...
...that leads to a big question about the stock market, which had run up more than 30% on the hunch that an economic upturn was imminent but has lately been exhibiting second thoughts, with trading volume sinking and major indexes slipping down through technical support levels, one after another. So investors rightly ask: Is it foolish to be buying stocks now, after the market jumped so high on hopes alone? (See the top 10 scared stock traders...
...Berlin's Museum of Applied Arts, "Free Within Borders" is not so concerned with the question of whether the Mob could have existed outside the G.D.R. Instead, it celebrates the ability of a group of young people to be creative in even the most constrained of circumstances...
...five years. The second round of election debates was held on June 23 in Jakarta, this time with the three vice-presidential candidates squaring off for an hour on national television. While the event was designed to create a more lively exchange than usual, the format still resembled a question-and-answer session with little in the way of sparring between candidates. Still, viewers voted by text message on the winner of the debate, choosing Boediono, the running mate of current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono...
...Still, some polls - and it is difficult to know which surveys are unbiased and reliable - show the race getting closer. Failure to reach that will send the top two vote getters to a second round in September, something the incumbent and front runner would probably like to avoid. "The question now is whether it is better for SBY to win with a slight margin in one round or a stronger mandate after two rounds," says Hamid. The answer to that question is just two weeks away...