In February the Baltic Dry Index (which measures these things) hit an alltime high.

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"I can make a case the market will go to a new alltime high, " asserts Steinhardt.

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Now, as this column goes to press, the Dow is down about 5% from its alltime high.

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Demand, at an alltime high of 9.1 million bbl. a day, is outstripping the capacity of U.S. refineries.

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Brazil's benchmark stock market index, the Bovespa, is hovering around an alltime high, and the economy is booming.

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Goldman's earnings set an alltime high for investment banks in 2005--then grew 76% last year to set a new record.

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Just to put all this in perspective: Even while such tax-code craziness and complexity is at an alltime high, marginal rates are at near historic lows.

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"I can make a case the market will go to a new alltime high, " asserts Steinhardt, from his modernistic work area, between glances at his thin trading screen.

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Corporate profits are at an alltime-high share of GDP, with most reporting companies ahead of analysts' estimates.

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