Our recommended buy levels were hit in four of the five Buffett-style stocks, and four could still be bought for more aggressive accounts, while stops should be raised on the previously recommend positions to lock in some nice profits.
And what I fear is that the Great Recession has moved the US towards European levels of structural employment, without any kind of Euro-style social safety net.
Part of the way in which the epic legitimizes its ability to talk about so many levels of existence and so many kinds of experience is its style: an ancient authority inheres in that old-time diction, the plushly padded epithets and stately rhythms.