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...This wish to see the market stop its drop is in many ways misplaced. Investors still have an excessive desire to see the market change direction while it is still too early. Getting money back into the market will require that a perception of value has returned in the form of lower prices in relationship to earnings and assets. That seems a long way off. And, it is, but the length of this stagnation depends on the violence and rapidity of the correction. The market is going down, probably much further. It can get there at a trot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market Can't Keep Going Down | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...roughly one-in-five that the current recession will snowball into the macroeconomic decline of 10% or more that is the hallmark of a depression.” Barro also wrote that he was skeptical about the effectiveness of the current federal stimulus package. “I wish I could be confident that the array of U.S. policies already in place and those likely forthcoming will be helpful,” he wrote. “But I think it more likely that the economy will eventually recover despite these policies, rather than because of them...

Author: By Marc G. Steinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Projects Likelihood of Economic Depression | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...know you prolly don’t want to talk on it, but I just was wantin’ to tell you to enjoy such a pretty holiday.” Was peace nowhere to be found! “I wish I’da learned that real soon after Miss Pam and my boys went away.” He still couldn’t accept they’d been blown away? His ignorance flew all over me, and I was ready to bicker over why—precisely why—he thought they were still...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction Part Two | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...debut, “I Love College,” Asher Roth takes us into his world of collegiate debauchery by inserting a DVD marked “Last Nite!” into the television and singing “That party last night was awfully crazy / I wish we taped it”—what a relief he did! The party he spends the next four minutes rapping about is a modern day version of National Lampoon’s Delta House, complete with mattresses falling from second floor windows, a strip poker game, and even...

Author: By Victoria J. Benjamin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Asher Roth | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...wish the company had told my brother that when it sold him the policy in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Health-Care Crisis Hits Home | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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