The love affair with Apple hardware

Only Apple has demonstrated an enduring vision for the way human beings respond to hardware and integrated software. Generations of Apple customers have grown up with and loved Apple IIs, Macs, iPods, iPhones and iPads. Thanks to the foundation Steve Jobs built, plenty of similar devices in the future will carry on that tradition.

As a result, the prospects are good that Apple, unlike its competition, will introduce a continuously evolving line of profitable hardware for the foreseeable future. It's very hard to make the case that there are equivalent prospects for the current competition's hardware in the long run.

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Apple Will Outlive the Competition

Fed may make a new move soon

Fed could be about to make a major policy change

U.S. Economy Slack Justifies Stimulus, Top Fed Staff Papers Show

Fed economists see easy monetary policy as effective and would like to enhance the forward guidance in a more specific way, i.e. lowing the unemployment threshold to 5.5% or 6%. This is a specific policy proposal to implement the idea that anchoring expectations is a far more effective policy tool than asset purchases. 

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