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Point the second: All it takes is one jerk. I said that before. But on this level, I'm much more worried. Thousands of angry people vs. scared riot cops. Oh, and no security. I'll get to that soon enough. What frightened me was the chance that some riot cop would panic and cave in some poor schmuck's head or discharge a weapon at the wrong person and I'd get hurt in the ensuing panic...
...nearest dealer, though, check the auto exposure in your mutual funds and stock portfolio. You may be able to cut your best deal right at home--by cutting your auto holdings. The stocks have had a nice run. They're up 65% in the past two years, vs. 47% for the Standard & Poor's 500. Since the last recession, in 1991, they're up 365%, vs...
Here's my view: the auto cycle is nearing an end. SUV sales in the first half of the year were up 11.2%, vs. an increase of 18.4% in the first half of 1998, reports a research firm, Autodata. If the trend holds, this will mark the slowest growth for SUVs in years. That puts profits under pressure because it takes three sedans to generate the profit...
...MEAT VS. POULTRY...
...part of the explanation of the appeal of this madness may be that it returns our soft, comfy civilization to an ancient roughness--man vs. nature, life or death, that sort of thing. The recent successes of stories like The Perfect Storm, Into Thin Air and The Endurance would suggest that the E-ZPass, "we deliver" world is yearning--if only in its dreams--for situations of hardship and danger. Death doesn't even seem to attend war anymore; Kosovo showed that a push-button war could be casualty-free, at least for those who pushed the buttons. Routine phrases...