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...this chart shows, the severe drop-off in demand has been punishing. But with technology advancing - and computers aging - the seeds for a replacement cycle are in place. Morgan Stanley's analysts expect the up cycle to start in the consumer segment of the market in the final quarter of 2009, then move on to small-business buyers and finally big corporate buyers in the second half...
...trade bill circulating in Congress contains a weak renewable-energy standard -just 20% of U.S. electricity would need to come from renewables by 2020, but that allows for nuclear power, and many utilities would be allowed to escape the requirement altogether. "We're off to a slow start," says Peter Duprey, CEO of Acciona Energy North America, which operates wind, solar and biofuel plants. "I'm disappointed with how things have gone [under Obama...
...incomes in all age groups under 55 have not increased since 2000. In fact, for the first time in at least 40 years, there is a chance that the real median household income for these age groups will be lower at the end of the decade than at the start...
...plight of middle-class families, the focus of Warren's academic research. Her relationship with Treasury has been rocky. She got into a low-level war with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and his staff over their perceived unwillingness to share information, and she had a shaky start with Geithner, who didn't seem to take the panel seriously at first. In an "Additional View" filed with the panel's June report, Republican panel member Jeb Hensarling wrote, "By choosing to focus much of its work on issues not central to our mandate the panel has missed critical opportunities...
...didn't take long for a new generation of scholars, many with roots at Samuelson's MIT, to start pointing out the problems. Samuelson protégé Joseph Stiglitz showed that a perfectly efficient market was impossible, because in such a market, nobody would have any incentive to gather the information needed to make markets efficient. Another Samuelson student, Robert Shiller, documented that stock prices jumped around a lot more than corporate fundamentals did. Samuelson's nephew Lawrence Summers demonstrated that it was impossible (without a thousand years of data) to tell a rationally random market from an irrational...