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...worth noting that listening to Soros listen to his money is an awfully fun activity. Ring. Hello? Yes, YES, YES!! Followed by several minutes of nine-digit bets on market moves that are here left off the record, by agreement. This is what Soros will say: he is up 9.5% to 10%. "A terrible two months for the market," he says as he shakes his head. Then, brightening: "But a great two months for hedge funds!" Soros thinks the U.S. is coming in for a hard landing. Fed rate cuts, he worries, won't come fast enough. Tax cuts...
...listen to the dogs howling at the Clintons now - baying and frothing at the mouth, the pack joined even by the Washington Post and the New York Times - we are conditioned by experience to expect that the nation, inured to Clinton's irrepressible shamelessness, will have the boyish monster on its hands and on its tax bills for years and years...
...They slashed their inventories and their payrolls, and now many are even beating Wall Street's (much lowered) expectations. That's great, but listen for a moment to Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach. "Five of the last six U.S. recessions have had a double dip, in which we've seemed to come into a recovery and then had a relapse," he says. "It takes that second dip to purge the economy of excesses...
...left in charge when his parents were out at the evening meetings their jobs often required. "Rod would make us listen to him read," remembers his youngest sister Raygene Paige, retired from a state agricultural agency. "And if we didn't pay attention to him, we had to write a book report...
...with six weeks before the next Fed meeting, there may be more to come. Because every move comes with words, and listen to these: "Business and consumer confidence are eroding further... requires a rapid and forceful response... inflation contained." Translation: There's a good chance of another between-the-meetings rate cut sometime before March, but until then Greenspan and the boys would like to read a few more tea leaves - and not risk sending the 75-basis-point message that the end of the world is nigh...