Market doldrums: Welcome to Kondratieff winter
Theory promulgated by obscure Russian economist may explain current economic malaise — and falling stock prices
Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating may have triggered the latest stock market drop, but it was not the cause. A huge write-down of equity values was probably inevitable.
(Just an aside: Given S&P's cluelessness in the Lehman debacle and its inability to discern dross from gold i
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