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...that a collapse of the U.S. banking system seems unlikely, stock-market watchers have found a new thing to worry about: rising interest rates. The yield on the government's 10-year Treasury bond is up 65% this year to a recent 3.83%. Says top Wall Street strategist Edward Yardeni, "If bond yields get up to 4.5%, so not much higher than they are now, I think we would see a real decline in mortgage refinancing, which would threaten the viability of the economic recovery." (Read "Economic Recovery: Will Corporate Profits Recoup...
Economist David Rosenberg earned his way onto Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team for the past four years by making smart market calls for clients at Merrill Lynch. Now the chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff, a Toronto-based wealth-management firm, Rosenberg tells TIME contributing editor John Curran why he thinks this market rally is headed for trouble...
China, of course, has certain advantages when it comes to managing shifting economic winds. There's no peskily powerful Congress to worry about, for one thing; what the Chinese government wants in the way of policy, it gets. Christopher Wood, chief Asia strategist for the brokerage and investment firm CLSA, says the fact that China's economy is a hybrid of capitalism and a socialist command economy has given the government much greater flexibility to intervene. Beijing more or less ordered Chinese banks to increase lending in response to the global financial meltdown. Wood, a former journalist well known...
Perry, Gov. Rick •Republican need to attract new voters leads strategist for to warn party not to "take your principles and throw them out the door and become a whorehouse and let anybody in who wants to come in, regardless...
...This time around, however, the clamor for fundamental change of a system that covers too few and costs too much has grown to the point where the minority party knows that simple obstructionism is a dangerous route to take. "The status quo is no longer acceptable," political strategist Frank Luntz wrote in a confidential memo to congressional Republicans earlier this month. "The overwhelming majority of Americans believe significant reform is needed - and they see Republicans (and the insurance companies) as the roadblock. If the dynamic becomes 'President Obama and congressional Democrats are on the side of reform and Republicans...