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THOMAS GALLAGHER: Sure. But unlike with economic or industry news, markets tend to react to politics--not discount them ahead of time. That creates opportunities if you can anticipate political trends. In the '92 election, we had a Clinton stock index, and for a 10-week period starting in mid-September, it outperformed the S&P 500 by 10 percentage points. But most of the move came after the election. Very little had been anticipated...
...future prices. That, Wolfers says, motivates them to get the best information they can, ignoring trivia and trends. "The market seems pretty highly attuned to news that affects the election outcome," Wolfers says. "That's not always the same as what the papers report. The market is unlikely to react to things like party conferences and policy speeches. But it will react to a change of tactics or a new campaign manager, which may not influence opinion polls...
That may sound like entrepreneurial bluster, but Citron has set off alarm bells at the big telephone carriers, who proved once already that they weren't swift enough to react when they ignored the challenge of cell phones. Before Vonage, telecom giants like MCI, Verizon and AT&T dismissed the technology for broadband phone service as too buggy and too complicated to bother selling. Vonage has proved them wrong, mostly because broadband phone service has one compelling advantage: price. It's half as expensive as regular telephone service. The company now has 220,000 subscribers, a pittance beside...
...discover a uniting Latin American identity and witness the poverty, illness and social injustice a world away from their comfortable, middle-class lives. By the time they reach San Pablo, Guevara's consciousness has been raised, the seeds of revolution planted. "It's a film about the necessity to react to what seems unfair and unjust," says Salles, "about making choices that will have an impact not only on your life, but also the lives of other people." It was producer Michael Nozik, working with Robert Redford, who approached Salles with the idea of realizing Guevara's writings...
...It’s the core ideas shop of the U.N. trying to develop policy options for the secretary-general to react to the various problems that come the U.N.’s way,” Orr told The Crimson this week. “Part of its importance is that it has to collect the best practices and best ideas from around the entire U.N. system and turn those into policy...