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...short, 30-year Treasury-bond yields spiked as high as 5.69% last Thursday, from 5.08% at the end of January, because some bond traders think--yet again--they just might see a possible uptick in inflation at some point in the undefinable future. Might happen. Might not. I view this skittishness as merely the latest pendulum swing in Wall Street's obsession with inflation. It will swing the other way soon enough. In fact, the T-bond yield fell to 5.59% Friday. Still, we have to live with bond traders' anxieties, and for now that means higher mortgage and other...
...Japan's economy lumbers forward, its lending to Asia should help recovery there, as will its imports of Asian goods. The heft of Japan's economy means every small uptick will help the U.S. export more. "The difference in lost output between -3% growth and 2.5% growth in Japan over 24 months is equal to the GDP of China," says Courtis...
...Aspartame is responsible for the recent uptick in brain-cancer rates. So how do you explain that the trend dates back to 1973, eight years before aspartame was approved...
...Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made it clear that "the military option remains on the table" if Saddam Hussein continues to impede U.N. weapons investigators. "Don't be too lulled by the holidays," says TIME U.N. Correspondent William Dowell. "The next week and a half will be tense.Expect an uptick in inspections...
From the moment he debuted as the writer of the People section, on Nov. 3, 1997, we noticed an uptick in mail about what was already one of the magazine's best-read pages. More than that, it was the beginning of an intractable love-hate relationship. Was Stein "the best thing to happen to TIME," or had the People page "become prisoner to his maniacal destructiveness"? Was he "wacky and fun" or "flat-out obnoxious"? Even as a sportswriter, a role he has taken up recently, Stein continues to attract both cheers ("What brilliant commentary!") and catcalls ("His report...