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...strong 2.4% GDP growth rate. It's also apparent in the panic prevailing in the gloom-loving bond pits on Wall Street, where traders have sent long-term interest rates soaring. With times getting better, you would think investing would be getting easier. But nothing looks cheap. Even after steep declines, many stocks remain expensive relative to earnings. Bonds are a death trap during periods of faster growth. Real estate never fell. Money-market yields barely cover a fund's expenses. So you have to look beyond the traditional stocks-bonds-cash-real estate mix to find any broad investment...
There's no question that the equipment has improved. Rent a cross-country bike these days, and you're likely to get a sturdy steed with hydraulic or mechanical disk brakes, which will help prevent you from skidding out of control when descending a steep incline. A few years ago, the technology appealed mainly to downhill racers, but it has since become widespread. New rear suspensions allow bikers to alter their mount's shock-absorbing capacity to accommodate the terrain. This year Specialized launched a line of bikes, Epic ($1,900+), whose suspension system, called "the Brain," automatically adjusts...
...about $120,000 a year, which he supplements with $70,000 in contract work--spreading manure, baling hay--for nine other farms, allowing him to net $25,000 last year. While conventional-milk prices fluctuate wildly, the price of organic milk has held steady. The premium has been so steep for the past few years that more and more farmers, even some who once dismissed organic farming as a bunch of New Age nonsense, are changing their tune...
...value. It has to be good for sentiment." Some entire sectors, such as biotech (see next story), seem reignited. No, we're not reliving the frothy days of 2000, when there were almost 20,000 mergers and acquisitions valued at $1.5 trillion in Europe alone. But the long, steep decline over the past three years may have bottomed. Deal volume continued to drop slightly in the first half of this year, but early July has seen a big bounce. The turnaround has been expected. Interest rates are at historic levels (last week the Bank of England restored the lowest rates...
...said that even when the odds looked steep, such protests did not lose their importance...