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...provisions. The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest umbrella union, would like to see aid to struggling states to help avoid layoffs of teachers, police and public employees and upwards of $500 billion more in targeted infrastructure and green-jobs investment. It proposes paying for this by instituting a stock transaction surcharge of 0.25% per trade - a move vehemently opposed by Wall Street, business groups, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House. (See 10 ways your job will change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Looks Toward a Jobs Stimulus | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...anything approaching a serious condition. But his long stay at the hospital and continued absence from public view has fueled unease, speculation and rumors. Recently, the government arrested four people for allegedly spreading rumors about the king's health on the internet, which, it claims, caused a stock market sell-off in October. Reporters Without Borders, an international media watchdog group, has said those arrested are scapegoats and the charges are baseless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Birthday Bash this Year for Thai King | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...Customers streamed into the showroom, briefly opened and closed the doors of the displayed minivans, and then marched over to the front desk to plop down their money, often within mere minutes of arriving. Xu Zhanrong, the dealership's deputy general manager, can barely keep the Wulings in stock. Sales of the minivans - manufactured by a joint venture between General Motors, Liuzhou Wuling Motors and Shanghai Automotive Industry - are up some 40% this year, Xu says, with about 50 purchased each day. One big reason, Xu explains, is that his customers, and especially those who come in from the nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can China's Backwaters Save the Global Economy? | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...Charles Dow at the turn of the 20th century and refined and popularized in the subsequent decades by Journal editor William Peter Hamilton. Prechter studied Dow theory but soon moved on to the mostly forgotten work of Ralph Nelson Elliott, an accountant who, while bedridden in the 1930s, charted stock-price movements and found intricate patterns based on the Fibonacci number sequence (in which, after 0 and 1, each number is the sum of the previous two: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.). The Fibonacci series, like pi, appears frequently in nature. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding the Waves of Irrational Behavior | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Prechter republished Elliott's books and in 1979 went into the forecasting business for himself at what he dubbed the Elliott Wave Institute. In 1981 he moved his operation to Gainesville, Ga., an hour north of Atlanta, and he's been there ever since. His accurate forecasts of a stock-market boom in the 1980s and a crash in the autumn of 1987 made him, for a time, one of the most influential Wall Street gurus. After the market started its 1990s bull run, though, Prechter seemed to lose his touch. In 1995 his book At the Crest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding the Waves of Irrational Behavior | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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