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Rasmussen Consumer Index Investor Confidence Falls Four Points to 60.0 The Rasmussen Investor Index fell four points on Tuesday to 60.0. That's the lowest level of investor confidence in over a month and barely above the all-time low of 58.5 measured in mid-December. The Investor Index is down eight points over the past week, down six points over the past month and down forty-six points over the past year. After falling for five straight days, the Rasmussen Consumer Index stabilized on Tuesday at 59.4. The Consumer Index, which measures the economic confidence of consumers on a daily basis, is down...

Raksha Arora writes for The Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing and is a strategic consultant at The Gallup Organization. She earned a master's degree in business administration with a specialization in finance from The Stern School at New York University, and gained investment strategy and industry analysis experience while employed with two leading global financial services firms. She currently advises Fortune 500 clients on how to measure the costs and finances associated with human resources. Is the federal budget deficit hurting the investment climate? The latest UBS/Gallup Index of Investor Optimism survey* reveals that it's not just a few alarmist...

A Bronx Cheer For Crooked C.E.O.’s by Terry Golway There’s a reason why the real world ought to be more like the world of sports, and here it is: Sports fans get the chance to boo their villains. Where else in America can you scream epithets at millionaires and not be hauled away as a threat to peace and prosperity? Where else are incompetents forced to suffer public humiliation at the hands—or throats—of honest and true citizens? In the sporting arena, if you drop the ball, the world knows about it instantly and reacts accordingly, and there’s no place for...

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