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In An Economy That Already Has Lost Some Momentum, One Must Remain Alert To The Possibility That Greater Caution And Weakening Asset Values In Financial Markets Could Signal Or Precipitate An Excessive Softening In Household And Business Spending.

And Whatever Their Publicized Angst Over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons Of Mass Destruction,' American And British Authorities Were Also Concerned About Violence In An Area That Harbors A Resource Indispensable For The Functioning Of The Word Economy. I Am Saddened That It Is Politically Inconvenient To Acknowledge What Everyone Knows: The Iraq War Is Largely About Oil.

I Don't Think It's Possible For The Fed To End Its Easy-money Policies In A Trouble-free Manner. Recent Episodes In Which Fed Officials Hinted At A Shift Toward Higher Interest Rates Have Unleashed Significant Volatility In Markets, So There Is No Reason To Suspect That The Actual Process Of Boosting Rates Would Be Any Different. I Think That Real Pressure Is Going To Occur Not By The Initiation By The Federal Reserve, But By The Markets Themselves.

[republicans] Swapped Principle For Power. They Ended Up With Neither. They Deserved To Lose.

Skilled Shortages In America Exist Because We Are Shielding Our Skilled Labor Force From World Competition. [visa Quotas] Have Been Substituted For The Wage Pricing Mechanism. In The Process We Have Created [a] Privileged Elite Whose Incomes Are Being Supported At Non-competitively High Levels By Immigration Quotas On Skilled Professionals. Eliminating Such Restrictions Would Reduce At Least Some Of The Income Inequality.