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Four weeks into a partial government shutdown that has gnarled air travel, threatened millions of tax refunds and stalled environmental protections, Wall Street seems to have a message for the feds: Stay shut.Major U.S. stock indexes are up 13 percent or more since Dec. 24, the first day of the shutdown that markets were open. News that the U.S. and China were considering dropping trade barriers sent the major market indexes even higher Friday afternoon, but stocks have been rising since the shutdown began. The SP 500-stock index, now up for four weeks straight, closed at 2,670 on Friday, up 2.3 percent this week. The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average spiked 3.5 percent since Monday, closing at 24,706, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite rose 3.7 percent this week to 7,157. Apparent progress in U.S.-China trade talks, as well as limited economic data coming out that shows the U.S. economy remains on solid footing, seem to have persuaded investors the economy isn t turning south, as have assurances from Federal Reserve Ch
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air Jay Powell that the central bank would be patient and listen to the markets. Past shutdowns have largely been a nonevent for the U.S. economy and stocks. Business and consumer confidence indicators usual
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ly decline and government spending drops during a shutdown, but any losses have typically been recouped quickly, John Lynch, research chief investment strategi
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CAN WE DO COIN ....Are 15-month combat tours too long Definitely. How about 12-month tours Phil Carter thinks even those are too
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long, and prefers the 7-month tours mandated by the Marine Corps. This prompted me to ask on Friday, Are 7-month tours consistent with the learning-curve requirements of counterinsurgency Over the weekend, Phil answered:This is a great question. The short answer is no, not by a long shot.Counterinsurgency requires detailed knowledge of the human, geographic, political and social terrain, and it takes time to acquire that knowledge. I d say it bec
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ame effective around the fifth or sixth month of my tour as a police adviser in Iraq. Arguably, advisers, commanders and troops operating outside the wire should serve longer tours in order to develop and cement their relationships, and capitalize on them.Phil suggests that deploying units back to the same areas instead of rotating them through different areas on every tour might help, but his overall conclusion is, It s a real dilemma. Short tours don t give you enough time to learn th
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