Portfolio Management

Government Policies and Your Investment Portfolio

Last February, Newsweek magazine ran a cover story entitled “We Are All Socialists Now” in which the authors, Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas wrote: “The America of 2009 is moving toward a modern European state” and “more government intrusion into the economy will almost surely limit growth as it has in Europe, where a big welfare state has caused chronic high unemployment” (Newsweek, February 16, 2009).

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