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...moment it was the armies of foreign ministers and finance wizards and spooks and geeks and anyone who could somehow trap and strangle the enemy. Meanwhile, the new generals of Homeland Security tried to button down the country, knowing that any U.S. attack is likely to trigger a retaliatory strike and that this time we need to be ready. We will just have to get used to something we have never seen: the regular sight of soldiers on our streets, in the airports, at the malls. In Los Angeles security guards were searching old ladies' pocketbooks as they arrived...
...moment it was the armies of foreign ministers and finance wizards and spooks and geeks and anyone who could somehow trap and strangle the enemy. Meanwhile, the new generals of Homeland Security tried to button down the country, knowing that any U.S. attack is likely to trigger a retaliatory strike and that this time we need to be ready. We will just have to get used to something we have never seen: the regular sight of soldiers on our streets, in the airports, at the malls. In Los Angeles security guards were searching old ladies' pocketbooks as they arrived...
...When it's not watching Washington's trigger finger, Wall Street is waiting for businesses to get confident. Businesses are waiting for consumers to get confident. And consumers are waiting for Wall Street to get confident - and to hear whether they'll be part of the 6 percent unemployment that we should be seeing by the spring. So do you buy this week's rally? I wouldn't. Sell it? Better odds - but market timing from the back of the line is for suckers. The best bet is to do what everybody else is doing, from the Big Board...
...good to see Rubin around, a meticulous man who made his career carefully assessing risks and making intelligent bets. These are not days for the loose of lip or itchy of trigger finger. But it?s going to be a long hard winter for the economy - the recession that was inevitable before Sept. 11 will be even deeper now. And as the Bush administration tries to pick its way back to more prosperous ground, the markets will occasionally look to the Treasury for guidance and reassurance, but not empty pep talks...
...North American Aerospace Defense Command, told the New York Times on Wednesday. "Otherwise, the standing orders have been pushed down to the regional level." All of which means that Maj. Gen. Larry K. Arnold, a two-star at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, can pull the trigger on a potentially dangerous commercial aircraft without even calling his boss Eberhart, much less Bush...