Dipping 22 points, nasdaq advancing just 0. 36 . Thank you, apple, for that. But if demand is just fine, thank you, not falling off a cliff, then we can tough this market out together. Not everyone agrees. For example, at the alpha conference yesterday, the vast majority of speakers seemed to write off the prospect of any robust growth in demand either here or worldwide. If you had to boil down the barest thesis, it will go like this. Central bankers are out of bullets. Nothings working. Demands declining. So were headed into the unknown, and lurking in the unknown is a terrible abyss of losses for anyone who owns anything. Stocks, bonds, you name it. Up guy, a person who looks at demand company by company and makes an aggregate case based on what i can put together. Now, i admit that the demand side worldwide is worry some, not dangerous, but worrisome. What we saw in 2007, that was dangerous when Central Banks generated Systemic Risk by tightening into an economic collapse. We dont s
To talk about two examples, case studies, if you would come of the approaches that we took when i was in the senate to actually get things done and move things forward. Ive had fellow senators during my tenure who had come to the end of 5 years and say they werent even able to get an amendment that theyve introduced to a vote on the senate floor. I will take two cases here to show you the way that we were able to do this. The first is on the post 9 11 g. I. Bill which i believe is the greatest Educational Program for our veterans in history. I started speaking about the need for a new g. I. Bill a real g. I. Bill fo for the people who would serve since nine 9 11 well before he decided to run for the senate in 20 2006. I come from a family that has a citizen soldier military tradition. My father served in world war ii. I grew up in a military. My son left college and enlisted in the marine corps during the iraq war and was in ramadi, iraq, and we kept hearing over and over again this is
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As dominic chu tells us, these kind of moves can make investors nauseous. Reporter after what seemed like a relatively calm upward trend for stocks throughout much of last year the roller coaster ride came roaring back in just the first month and a half of the new year. Larger cap stocks as represented by the dow and the s p 500 are for the most part flat yeartodate. But dig a little deeper and you can see where the angst is coming from. The dow at a triple digit point move up or down for twothirds of all trading days so far this year. And the daily trading range for the dow has been a triple digit move between daily highs and daily lows almost every trading day this year. Now the caveat here is as the dow grows in size the relative percentage move related to triple digit swings diminishes. Still, its been a rough ride for some investors who try to follow every tick. A number of factors have contributed to the volatility and could continue to do so in the coming months. First, uncertai
As dominic chu tells us, these kind of moves can make investors nauseous. Reporter after what seemed like a relatively calm upward trend for stocks throughout much of last year the roller coaster ride came roaring back in just the first month and a half of the new year. Larger cap stocks as represented by the dow and the s p 500 are for the most part flat yeartodate. But dig a little deeper and you can see where the angst is coming from. The dow at a triple digit point move up or down for twothirds of all trading days so far this year. And the daily trading range for the dow has been a triple digit move between daily highs and daily lows almost every trading day this year. Now the caveat here is as the dow grows in size the relative percentage move related to triple digit swings diminishes. Still, its been a rough ride for some investors who try to follow every tick. A number of factors have contributed to the volatility and could continue to do so in the coming months. First, uncertai