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Hooray, the long-term capital-gains tax rate has been cut. That's good news--if you know how to use it. The last two times the rate fell, in 1978 and 1981, some distinct patterns emerged: the stock market sank but ultimately staged a powerful recovery. There was also a noticeable flow into the stocks of small companies. The problem is that in this so-called new-era economy, historical benchmarks have been about as useful as an abacus in Silicon Valley. To borrow a phrase from the new-era crowd, it's different this time...
Your review of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm [BOOKS, June 23] recounted a dramatic sea story but was incorrect in some facts. I am the owner and captain of the sailing vessel Satori, which your reviewer said sank in the fierce 1991 storm off the East Coast. In fact, before evacuating the vessel, I lashed the helm, sheeted in the storm jib and checked the compass. Seven days after my crew and I were rescued, I had Satori pulled off the beach in Maryland. Her bilges were dry, and there was no structural damage. Since then, I've sailed...
...heard such naysaying before. This mighty bull market long ago trampled traditional value measures such as stock prices relative to corporate assets and dividends. Investors--correctly, it turns out--laughed off the notion that the market must weaken just because dividend yields (annual dividend divided by stock price) sank to below 2% when they've rarely been below 3% any time this century. They also laughed off gobs of anecdotal evidence that prices were precariously high: cab drivers offering mutual-fund tips, barbershops tuned to CNBC, record prices for seats on the New York Stock Exchange, exploding margin debt...
...depths to which Tyson sank were in direct contrast to the high hopes for this fight. When Holyfield, then a 7-to-1 underdog, upset Tyson last November, he revitalized heavyweight boxing and guaranteed himself and Tyson a huge payday for the rematch--$35 million for the champ, $30 million for the challenger--not to mention a stiff pay-per-view price of $49.95 for home viewers. Promoter Don King called it "the biggest event of all time," and while it may not have been that, it was a classic rematch between the good Holyfield, who wore the biblical inscription...