Anne Truitt Zelenka

"A PORTFOLIO manager described the market’s recent plunge to economist Ed Yardeni as the “greatest margin call of all times”. Indeed. The decline in stock indexes globally cannot reasonably be interpreted as entirely the result of a darker economic future. The relentless downward movement with only the sickliest of rallies has the feel of forced selling."

"I think McCain looks, to our hypothetical undecided, utterly disconnected from what's happening in the world, and the details of the Ayers connection, however troubling they might be in another context, blur away into a broader impression of a flailing, desperate, out-of-touch candidate."

"Nonetheless, I fear that the conjunction of an Obama victory, a strongly Democratic Congress, and a major economic crisis will produce a massive and difficult to reverse expansion of government"