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...photo on the cover of your Nov. 24 issue is an O-bomination! Can we please wait to see how well the new President does before we canonize him? Joseph Cortese II, WEST DES MOINES, IOWA...
...Obama era, it is now clear, began on Election Day and will not wait. Like his presidential campaign, his transition is proving to be historic. Unwilling to bide his time until President Bush packs up his things and leaves town, Obama simply took control of economic policy on Nov. 23, when he unveiled an economic team noted for its brains and experience and asked it to come up with a massive economic-stimulus plan, in the hopes of rushing it through Congress and readying it for him to sign by the time he is sworn in. The next...
...even if that's not the case, selling after such a big drop makes no sense for most people. Dozens of studies have shown that if you wait for confirmation that a recession has ended before you buy, you'll all but miss the corresponding rebound in stocks. One model dating back to 1926 shows that a high-quality portfolio of just 60% stocks (and 40% bonds) returns an average of 11% per year in the first five years following a trough in the economy. That may be all you'll need to get even...
...nominate the waiting billions. In 2008 the world renewed its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals: its promises to the global billions of poor and disenfranchised. These people are waiting for us to meet our deadline by 2015. They are waiting for us to keep our promises. Let's get our promises back on track so they don't have to wait any longer...
...seven years. For the first three, you're denied access to almost anybody besides the Red Cross and interrogators and finally lawyers get there in 2004. And yet the lawyers aren't able to do anything effectively for you until four years later. It's a long time to wait...