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Maybe it’s less important that Dean isn’t the greatest campaign strategist and more important that this is a guy who has always had the courage to stand up to George Bush, even when he had an “untouchable” eighty percent approval rating. Maybe—because the presidential nominee has always determined a party’s success far more than any committee chair—my fellow New Democrats can spend less time despairing about Dean’s ACLU streak, and more time celebrating the fact that (unlike...
...When nothing looks good, buy everything," says Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor's, in a pitch for diversification. That's easy to say. But what does it really mean? If you're assessing your portfolio or reallocating a retirement account, you may still be asking yourself, Where do I put money...
David Darst, chief investment strategist at Morgan Stanley's Individual Investor Group, argues that with the dollar's weakness, "you need something international to generate currency gains." Consider an unhedged international bond fund like Pimco Foreign Bond or T. Rowe Price International Bond. They pay a fixed income, which rises as the dollar falls and vice versa...
...charge, has erected barriers between the U.S. and the rest of the world by unilaterally implementing his policies on Iraq and other global issues, with alarming consequences. At some future time, Americans will wake up to a cold, even hostile world, and no amount of spin from a political strategist like Karl Rove will be able to explain it away. Colin Wakefield Johannesburg My reaction to your choice of president Bush as Person of the Year went from revulsion to amazement to the realization that there was no alternative. This man has shaped the world for four years...
...residents poured into the streets to demand greater political freedoms, such as the right to directly elect its next leader and all its legislators, an issue Tung didn't broach in his address. ("Pragmatic Hong Kong has moved on to other things," says Lau Siu-kai, Tung's chief strategist and author of last week's speech. "That's nuts," retorts Christine Loh, CEO of Civic Exchange, a progressive local think tank. "It just shows how out of touch they are.") Now, activist groups have found other causes to rally around. Last month, two major property-related plans-a private...