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...long stocks hold those positions in the face of the threat from H1N1 remains to be seen. The fact that shares hit hard early had regained lost ground Monday suggests markets had earlier "responded in the time honored fashion," says Howard Wheeldon, senior strategist at BGC Partners in London, namely with "a degree of overreaction...
...does partisanship better than the Ragin' Cajun. In his latest book, the Louisiana-bred campaign strategist, who recently returned to teach political science at Tulane, takes a victory lap celebrating the Democrats' 2008 electoral trifecta. "The myth of Republican competence and fiscal responsibility is shattered," a victim of the strategic and economic missteps of the Bush years, Carville gleefully notes. If Democrats play their cards right, he argues, they can dominate politics for the next four decades. The key? "To rebuild Americans' trust in government as a force of good." His excitability is infectious, if only to those...
...would presumably also cause energy prices to rise - and if cap-and-trade proves unpopular in Congress, EPA regulation could end up a political loser for the Obama Administration as well. "Republicans would love for Democrats to regulate carbon and raise energy prices," says Michael Shellenberger, a political strategist and president of the Breakthrough Institute, a maverick green group. "The threat of regulating carbon is actually a suicide threat...
These moves do carry certain risks - the more you seek forgiveness, the more people discover you have sinned - but for the most part, brand experts give Domino's high marks for its response. "First of all, they handled it very well with the video response," says Pete Blackshaw, brand strategist for Nielsen Online. "It could have been a little bit quicker, but the company needed time to get its facts straight. It was near perfect...
...bill for snail mail suggests that Clinton's campaign was relying heavily on tactics from the 20th century, while Obama was running circles around her by using the far more cost- (and politically) effective Internet. The Clintons, however, remain firmly behind the man who served as chief strategist for both of them. "Mark did a fine job for me in 1995 and 1996, during the government shutdown and my re-election campaign. He also helped the Democrats win House seats in 1998, when we were badly outspent and pundits predicted losses of 25 to 35 seats. The last time...