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Still, a lot of people are going to have to rebalance their portfolios to remain properly diversified and in line with their goals. "You can have an extremely negative view of the economy and use that to say, 'I am not going to go anywhere close to consumer discretionary stocks,'" says McManus. He'd opt for consumer staples instead, as well as health care, utilities and perhaps some beaten-down market sectors such as energy...
...meet this challenge, the U.S., or any other country that wants to remain in the game, can't afford to repeat past mistakes. And the worst mistake of all is complacency--to dismiss the challengers as a nuisance, as the U.S. did Japan in the 1960s, rather than view them as serious competition. You can see the results of complacency when you look at the Big Three U.S. automakers...
There are no equivalents to those circumstances today. The "real" economies of most major nations remain robust. No major war has disrupted international trade in more than a half-century. On the contrary, the explosion of global commerce in the past several decades has underwritten prosperity not only for developed countries but for many other nations as well--notably China, India and Brazil--lending today's world economy degrees of diversity, dynamism and resilience that simply did not exist eight decades ago. The abandonment of the gold standard has opened space for countries to adjust their monetary and fiscal regimes...
...missile crisis seems to be one. [Franklin] Roosevelt's first 100 days, I would argue, particularly because so many people are making comparisons with the present day, is another one that I think [is] often held up as a moment in which temperament, personality, the ability to lead and remain calm in crisis really matters...
...mean, this is somebody who's extremely, extremely bright and yet in this particular instance could not see that all of the previous failures or all of the previous difficulties that he had had with this issue would come crashing down around his head if he didn't remain loyal to his wife and his family...