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WASHINGTON (AP) — Economic growth is pitiful. Unemployment has topped 8 percent for an exhausting 43 months. The nation is careering toward a so-called fiscal cliff, and maybe a recession.
So why is the Dow Jones industrial average, that trusty gauge of corporate America's strength, just 4 percent shy of an all-time record? And why are the smaller public companies measured by the Russell 2000 index almost there already?
Start with two words: Ben Bernanke.
Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, last week announced unprecedented measures aimed at lifting the sagging economy — and boosting the prices of assets like stocks and houses. The market rallied all summer in anticipation of such a move.
The Fed made an open-ended promise to purchase $40 billion a month in mortgage bonds and said it will keep interest rates low through 2015, even if the economy starts to improve.
The announcement set off a two-day rally that drove the Dow up 260 points, leaving it less than 600 points shy of its record high — 14,164, reached on Oct. 9, 2007, two months before the Great Recession began.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index, a broader measure of the market's strength, would need to gain less than 7 percent to surpass its own record, reached on the same day.
There's ample reason to think Bernanke's prescription will work, at least for stocks. The idea is to pump money into the economy to push interest rates even lower, which encourages spending, and drive up stocks, which makes people feel richer.
The hope is that also will drive people out of investments based on interest rates, such as CDs and bond mutual funds, and into stocks. If stock prices rise, investors will be richer and more likely to spend. It's called the "wealth effect."
The measures are the Fed's third round of so-called quantitative easing. It's the fourth round if you count a similar, ongoing plan known as Operation Twist under which the Fed drives down long-term interest rates.
The earlier actions were rocket boosters for stocks:
— The first round was announced in its full $1.2 trillion form in March 2009, at the depths of the recession. From there, the Dow gained 45 percent over the following year. The S&P 500 rose even more.
— Bernanke hinted at a second round in August 2010. From then until it ended June 30, 2011, the Dow added 24 percent.
— Between the launch of Operation Twist last September and Wednesday, the day before the Fed's announcement, all three indexes rose more than 20 percent.
The Fed's actions work in part because they help make U.S. stocks one of the least ugly investments out there. Big American companies are a stable bet compared with Europe and many emerging markets.
People might prefer the safety of Treasurys, but the Fed is shooing them away, pushing yields so low that, adjusting for inflation, investors end up paying the government to hold on to their money.
There's no denying the Fed measures draw investors into stocks, says Tyler Vernon, chief investment officer of Biltmore Capital, an investment adviser in Princeton, N.J.
But without some improvement in the economy itself, he says, the effects will be fleeting.
"We've had this recovery in the stock market but not really in the economy," Vernon says. Stocks will likely fall within months, he says, "when the same stories are coming out about the economy, when we start hearing the same old song of people dropping out of the workforce and unemployment staying high."
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Oklahoma country band the Turnpike Troubadours have lived a pretty charmed life in 2013 so far, and so has St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Matt Carpenter who is heading to the 2013 World Series vs. the Boston Red Sox, and will be taking a little bit of the Turnpike Troubadours with him.
An emerging staple of the Major League Baseball landscape over the last few years has been the walk up music batters select to be played as they make their way to the plate. Matt Carpenter happens to favor a song called "Long Hot Summer Day" that appears on the Turnpike Troubadour's 2010 album Diamonds & Gasoline. The song was originally written and performed by country legend and father of Newgrass, John Hartford.
When Matt Carpenter made an appearance in the All-Star Game earlier this year, social network channels erupted with chatter from Turnpike Troubadours fans elated that "Long Hot Summer Day" had found its way onto primetime television. Now it will be showcased on baseball's biggest stage during Cardinals home games.
Turnpike Troubadour fiddler and St. Louis Cardinals fan Kyle Nix says the exposure has really helped the band out. "Regionally in Missouri, eastern Oklahoma, and in Kansas and stuff like that, it seems to have blown up our fan base really big," says Nix. "You'll see it on Twitter quite a bit."
Kyle Nix says the band didn't initially plan to record "Long Hot Summer Day," but after seeing how it was received live, it made it onto their second record. "Evan [Felker] was listening to a lot of John Hartford, and I was listening to a lot of bluegrass stuff, and we lived in the same house here in Stillwater at the time. I was just kind of a neat little song. It was cool the way Hartford did it, just by himself, tapping his foot, playing the fiddle. And we figured it might be cool to put a whole band behind a song like that."
Matt Carpenter isn't just a fan of "Long Hot Summer Day," he's been a solid fan of the Turnpike Troubadours for a few years, attending shows in McKinney, TX, and College Station, TX. Carpenter's wife is from College Station, and Carpenter was born in Galveston. While in St. Louis recently for a Cardinals game, Kyle Nix was invited down on the field by the ball player.
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Does Kyle Nix have a prediction for the World Series?
"I have a want. I think it was '04 that the Red Sox actually swept the Cards in the World Series. I would really like the Cards to sweep the series just to pay them back for it, that'd be great. I'm not going to predict that, but I'd like to say the Cards in 6 games. I think they'll do good. I think they'll take it, but don't hold me to that. I just hope."
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Originally written and performed by bluegrass great John Hartford, Carpenter started using the Troubadours version in 2012, but this is the first time it has had a chance to be showcased on such a grand stage. And apparently the fandom is mutual, with the Troubadours throwing their support behind Carpenter. It probably helps that Carpenter happens to play for the team closest to the Troubadour's native Oklahoma, and that Matt grew up in Sugar Land, TX and went to school at TCU in Ft. Worth—a Turnpike Troubadour stronghold if there ever was one.
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Please remove trundle from ranked play.. he is a worthless champion who never wins in ranked. His ganking skills are sub par, he is ok at counter jungling, but lets be honest, most trundles are just trolls. In fact, when I see a trundle, I want to try, I really do, but I cant help the feeling Im being trolled and usually respond with subpar play. At any rate, I guess when I am leader, I will resort to banning him just to not see him on my team 1/5 times or w/e. A jungler with no CC besides a slow, is incredibly situational. At any rate.. I believe my win rate , in ranked, with a trundle on my team is somewhere near 1/20... hes so bad, plz buff or remove , ty
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and u REALLY think they will remove a champ because MISTER KIXTAR want it? moron. edit: and btw trundle is strong.
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wow, complaining about one of the best junglers in high-elo play. get outta here you lil troll
I main trundle in ranked lol.... have a look :P He's not easy to play and 80% of people don't play him properly, but when they do he is a beast
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Ignore this thread, obvious troll.
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Stonewall would like a word with you. That word is a severe beating and all of your buffs stolen. Trundle is an excellent jungler in the right hands, and pretty **** strong in a face to face jungler confrontation
stonewall made very basic jungling videos... his strength tier lists of junglers is not that applicable to high elo play.. even Saint Vicious himself, a known strong trundle player, feels he is not a strong team pick. I've seen him say it on many high lvl streams.
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