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Regardless, the market did take it on the chin this week, battered by the combination of earnings disappointments from a couple of bellwethers and, above all, by the soaring yield on the 30-year bond.
On the left, large liberal foundations like Ford and Carnegie, the bellwethers of political correctness, throw millions of dollars into projects relating to these ideas.
This week, things brightened slightly, for no obvious reason aside from excellent earnings from bellwethers Cisco (a holding of mine) and Wal-Mart (which I don't own but probably should) and a general sense that the market was "oversold."
Take this week's raft of upgrades and bullish comments on some Internet bellwethers by analysts at firms ranging from Merrill Lynch to Paine Webber.
But, again with the rare exception, all these bellwethers have seen their stock prices get crunched.