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...falls and half rises. Start now and build exposure to large, defensive consumer stocks like Pfizer and Anheuser-Busch. Fund investors won't find a lot of managers who have invested in these laggards; most funds are playing the cyclical theme, which could work a while yet. But Exeter Tax Managed and AmSouth Select Equity funds are loaded with consumer-goods stocks, making certain that when the shift comes, they'll be ready...
...their heavy guns--the Jeb Bush operation, family consigliere Jim Baker and, ultimately, five Supreme Court justices--to win the presidency. Then the Democrats in Congress made the disastrous assumption that Bush would be amenable to bipartisan compromise. "Bipartisanship is another name for date rape," the fanatic G.O.P. tax cutter Grover Norquist later said, in what could stand as an epitaph for the gullible Congressional Democrats. No less a liberal than Ted Kennedy gave his imprimatur to Bush's No Child Left Behind education bill, only to find that the money he expected to fund the program had been left...
Just how clever is Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the intellectual godfather of the war on Iraq? The memo he signed on Dec. 5 makes you wonder. The paper fleshed out for the public who is eligible to win prime contracts, funded by $18.6 billion of U.S. tax money, to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure and supply its new army. Only firms from supportive nations can bid, which rules out those from antiwar countries like Russia, Germany, France and Canada. In its tact, timing and logic, the memo is a disaster. It was released just as the Bush Administration was launching...
...value over the past year. So Chinese exports to the U.S. have indeed grown cheaper compared with those of other countries. To support its currency, China holds about $120 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds, thus lending America the money to keep its economy humming (thanks, Beijing, for financing those tax rebates...
...Chinese and American economies have grown so interconnected that even Beijing's efforts to throw Washington a bone by curbing some exports irritate certain U.S. firms. In October, China responded to U.S. pressure by reducing a tax rebate for firms selling abroad. Multinationals operating in China complained. "Foreign companies were hurt disproportionately because so many are set up for export and expected that rebate," says a senior executive of Motorola, which sells Chinese-made mobile phones around the world. Sales from foreign companies operating in China account for more than half of China's exports. That has made U.S. businesses...