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发表于 2010-9-7 10:35 AM
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Yesterday President Obama announced a $50 billion-plus infrastructure program, which included a pointed campaign season assault on the Republican party. (Later in the day, it was reported that businesses would be allowed to expense capital expenses.) The GOP's leaders immediately assailed the administration's proposal of more federal spending as ineffective.
With the administration's ongoing and committed populist message/rhetoric at such close proximity to the midterm elections (and the Democrats very wobbly), one has to wonder why the President continues to launch these fiscal chip shots. To use the words written by Paul Krugman in the New York Times -- and I am a Democrat! -- President Obama may simply not have the "intellectual clarity and political will."
While I am a Democrat, I (and many others) have obviously over rated Director of the White House National Economic Council Lawrence Summers' critical thinking and the dogma and seeming class warfare incorporated in Obama's ideology.
In light of the growing friction between parties and with so much at stake in House and Senate, nothing substantive on the jobs front will likely get done by year-end.
Barring an unlikely transformative fiscal initiative that is focused on jobs growth (which I had been hoping for), I find it hard for valuations to expand and for the S&P 500 to make much progress above 1,150 this year.
In stating the obvious, there is clearly no incentive on the part of Republicans to be cooperative, and there is no political interest on the part of Democrats to deviate from their populist views.
So, absent an exogenous event, the year's lows have likely been put in, and stocks could move modestly higher. That being said, with too combative a political situation (rendering impactful 2010 fiscal policy effete), still elevated unemployment and absent much economic momentum, I can't find a P/E-enriching market catalyst that will push equities to the levels that many optimistic strategists are anticipating.
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发表于 2010-9-7 10:35 AM
