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Market Meltdown Opportunity From Forbes.com, by Dee Gill
The economy's in a funk again, creating the real possibility that those
depressing headlines of 2008 will soon repeat. Any chance investors will do a better
job of handling the news this time around? Not from the looks of things so far. Like frat
boys at a keg party, investors reacting to a couple of weak economic indicators recently
created near universal wreckage in the marktes. Shares of healthy retailers, weak banks,
expensive techs and cheap consumer goods makers alike fell sharply before morning-after
regrets led to frenzied buying. If the collective psyche learned anything about investing
in the last recession, it apparently wasn't calculated restraint. . . .
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Selling Slow
Boats to a Faster Crowd From The New York Times, by Dee Gill
Almost since its introduction more than a
century ago, the electric pleasure boat has been known as the
golf cart of the sea, loved mainly by the oldest of the
retiree set. With an old-fashioned canvas canopy and a top
speed of about eight miles per hour, it is a notoriously unhip
craft, holding little appeal among the sail-and-power crowd
that has made recreational boating an $11 billion-a-year
industry. But a two-year-old company owned by Learjet heiress
Sanda Lear-Baylor. . . continue
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Mississippi Politics: . . . and the dog you came
in with From The
Economist magazine, by Dee Gill
It is
well known in Mississippi that the governor, Kirk Fordice, has
a penchant for offensive bombast. This is the man who
routinely calls the state attorney-general “Flashbulb” because
of his media popularity, and who refers to the killing of
inmates on death row as “reducing the inventory.” As for the
media, that bastion of lying leftists has inspired numerous
tirades from the governor over the past eight years. . . continue
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