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...with modernization, as families started splitting up and relocating around the world, society has become more individualized, and many of the rites and rituals have been lost along with a sense of togetherness, says Jeffrey Alexander, director of Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology. "Through technology," he says, "we've constructed this community that can move with us wherever we are." (See the 25 best blogs...
...something that I consider to be a problem, but I think the market does - and so the Fed will probably be working in the direction of pulling some of the liquidity out of the marketplace. They won't sell - it's a near impossibility to unload what they've purchased over past 12 months. But they'll at least stop buying. (See the worst business deals...
...secondly, there's a ripple effect. Just speaking about Pimco's general portfolio strategy, we've sold our agency mortgage securities, Fannie and Freddie, in the billions to the willing check of the Fed. They're buying a trillion dollars of them, or have over the past nine to 12 months, and so we sold them a lot of ours. Now, what did we do with the money? We bought Treasuries, we bought corporate bonds, and so the bond markets in general have benefited, as have stocks, because this available money effectively flows through the capital markets...
...crosscurrents, what will the investor's world look like in the years ahead? In a new-normal world, growth will be half of what it was, profit growth will be half of what it was, and returns on almost all assets - including bonds - will be half of what we've grown used to. Further, the U.S. economy and other [developed] economies have provided as a whole 7% to 9% returns over the past 10, 20 years, and investors got used to that. That's one of the reasons why states and pension funds with the long-term liabilities matched...
...We’ve played in a lot of different places and seen some pretty good crowds, some pretty intense crowds,” freshman Kyle Casey said. “But this crowd was great. Santa Clara was on us and our fans were with us, so [there] was great energy out there...