Cash in on Obama's infrastructure bonanza

Barack Obama aims to spend millions rebuilding America's infrastructure in the hopes that this will see the economy through the worst of the recession. Many companies will benefit – and so can you. Here are ten likely candidates.

Pack your bags, folks - "There's no more Wall Street." That's the damning verdict from Alan Greenberg, former CEO of Bear Stearns. Speaking on Bloomberg's Money and Politics show on Monday, Greenberg declared that the existing Wall Street investment banking model is dead.

I'm not sure about death, but the broader US economy is like a 2:00 AM drunk, continuing to stumble towards the end of a mind-altering 2008, with little long-term relief in sight. Will it ever find its way home again?

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