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Banks are still full of bad news. Why are the stocks showing such strength? We've seen unprecedented liquidity being put to work in the U.S. on behalf of financials, so it was only going to be a matter of time before banks started to rise. Also, many investors have been so focused on the short term - all the recent steps taken by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury - that they have forgotten that the bank assist started in August of 2007 when the Fed cut the discount rate and opened the lending window to a wider list of financial...
...financials may have a couple more months of relative strength as portfolios readjust, but when might banks and brokers reemerge as stock-market leaders? Before financials can emerge in a leadership position we will need to see some semblance of very stern regulation in the financial field, which will signal to investors that financial companies are clean - at that point they may even be overregulated. Also, between 2001 and 2007 financials added a bunch of capacity, and that needs to recede, through consolidation or simply going out of business. That's still a few years...
H1N1 makes clear how vulnerable our interconnected globe is to emerging diseases. As a result of jet travel and international trade, a new pathogen managed to seed itself in more than 20 countries in less than two weeks. But while globalization has its liabilities, it is also a strength because it gives us the tools to create a truly international disease-surveillance system. And the threat of a pandemic should remind us that we must fill the gaps in the creaky U.S. health-care system; during an infectious-disease outbreak, everyone will be at risk. "We live in one world...
...their bows in front. “There was definitely that sense of urgency, of ‘we need to perform today,’ to really assert ourselves today,” Carlson said. In the last 25 strokes, Radcliffe kicked it into another gear, mustering enough strength to push into Yale and beat Princeton by 0.7 seconds.“We knew that it was everyone’s race from the starting line and that we were going up against five extremely fast crews and that it was going to take an extraordinary race even...
...every way possible emulated what her father stood for, which was for the right of the people to govern themselves and to have a free and democratic country. Her stubbornness is her strength." -Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert at Rutgers University (New York Times, June...