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Shifting shapes of Europe
Gerard Delanty
Almantas Samalavičius
Gerard Delanty is one of Europe's leading figures in the field of sociology whose work encompasses a variety of theoretical themes and subjects. The first of his numerous books, Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality (1995) was a significant, timely and challenging contribution to the European discourse. Almantas Samalavicius asks Delanty to revisit the ideas set forward in this thought-provoking, polemical work.
Almantas Samalavicius: Few would, I hope, disagree that your book Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality, published in 1995, made a significant, timely and fresh theoretical contribution to the European discourse in the social and political sciences and humanities – not only because, prior to its publication, discussion about Europe were somewhat one-dimensional and shallow, but also because the enlargement of Europe created new controversies, doubts and contradictions in both "old" and "new" European countries. The Lithuanian translation appeared in 2002 and since then it has been frequently quoted and referred to in academic discussions on a wide range of issues about the past, present and the future of Europe – which, as we all know, has become rather vague and somewhat confused. Could you specify the most urgent problems the European community is facing today, seventeen years after the book's publication? Do you feel that you need to reconsider or develop any of its claims beyond the original scope of your concerns?
Gerard Delanty: Despite its success, the book has some shortcomings; indeed, these shortcomings are probably the reason for its success. The basic argument of the book was stated in too polemical terms. The notion that European identity had always been forged in terms of a relation of hostility to an Other needs to be reassessed and a more nuanced argument put forward. The book was too influenced by Said's critique of orientalism, by constructivist theories of collective identity, and by a Foucauldian notion of discourse. The result was a far too negative critique of the European heritage and an interpretation of the "rise of the West" that has been discredited by historical sociology. Since the mid-1990s there has been a huge amount of literature on the questions the book was addressing and this all needs to be taken into account in any assessment of the idea of Europe. This includes sophisticated theoretical work on European integration, but it also includes new work in historical sociology and social theory as well as political philosophy. In addition, the developments of the past fifteen years need to be taken into account, especially the consequences of the enlargement of the European Union and the wider global context.
My work since 1995 has led me to question – and in part reject – the polemical thesis of the book. In numerous papers and another book, Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization (2005, co-authored with Chris Rumford), as well as an edited volume Europe and Asia Beyond East and West (2006), I have developed new perspectives, such as the idea of a "post-western Europe". I have moved away from simple constructivist views of identity, heritage, and so on as a power-centred construction based on self/other relations, to a position that gives greater recognition to cosmopolitan and hermeneutical relations. I am currently writing a new version of the book, entitled Reinventing Europe: A New Critical History.
AS: Today, many parts of Europe, like other parts of the world, are seeing a great influx of migrants, people who are changing places for economics reasons, because of employment opportunities, or because of political, religious or ethnic persecution. One of the theses of Inventing Europe was that citizenship based on participation and solidarity is the single most significant element in constructing the future of Europe. You also suggested that the notion of post-national citizenship is a more important ideal than any form of European unity. Would you still argue this today and if so, what are the prospects of implementing it?
GD: The notion of post-national citizenship refers to a citizenship that is not restricted by nationality. It does not mean anything more than that; and indeed, many national approaches to citizenship are now, in part, post-national. It is thus still highly relevant to the current situation in Europe and in almost every part of the world where large numbers of migrants are forcing the political community to be defined in more inclusive terms. So the question is not whether it is needed but how far it should be taken. The EU's notion of European Citizenship is post-national only in a very limited sense, since it is derivative of national citizenship.
AS: You stressed that post-national citizenship is a true alternative to a narrow understanding of citizenship, conditioned as it is by where the individual lives instead of his or her original nationality. You even went so far as to suggest that the ties between citizenship and nationality are to be broken. However, this claim was modified by the emergence of a more hostile climate to "strangers" in numerous European countries. A critic might question whether "post-national citizenship" is more likely to be a long-term political project an not something attained in the next few decades. What would be your reply to such a criticism?
GD: That it is factually wrong. Almost every country nowadays recognizes that persons other than nationals have rights, such as human rights; in the countries of the EU, these rights have now been incorporated into national law. The result is a pluralization of nationality. Such developments should be seen not in zero-sum terms, as either present or absent, but as a matter of degrees. Countries are to varying degrees post-national. It is of course the case that there is much resistance to the separation of citizenship from nationality. From a more normative philosophical perspective, one should recall that citizenship is a condition that is not constrained by nationality as such. It is a status based on rights, and rights take many forms. Indeed, one may be a national but experience a loss of rights. It is the case that nationals of one country have more rights of citizenship than nationals of others.
AS: A decade or two ago, discussions regarding the prospects of eastern and central European countries becoming members of the European Union and developing a culture of liberal democracy were based on the assumption that the construction of "civil society" would end the controversies caused by totalitarianism and the rise nationalism that followed its fall. These days, however, more and more authors are likely to suggest that notions such as "civil society" are mere abstractions rather than the guidelines for realistic policy. Shouldn't one give up such "amoeba-like" constructs and look for new and more promising intellectual tools? Personally, I feel that some notions simply don't work or, if they do, only in the realm of theory. Where should one draw the boundary between pure social theory and political praxis in issues such as, say, "civil society"?
GD: I agree that it is pointless making highly normative claims that have no empirical reference points. However I don't agree that the notion of civil society is of no relevance. The concept is indeed often used to refer only to progressive political movements, when in fact the notion of civil society includes within it all kinds of non-state actors, including religious and nationalist movements. In any case, whatever it includes, it is a highly relevant concept in referring to the political domain that lies outside the state. As for central and eastern Europe becoming democratized, I think it is self-evidently the case that they have, even if this has been mixed up with neo-liberalism and neo-nationalism. As with citizenship, democracy is always a matter of degree.
AS: Countries of eastern Europe (Lithuania among them) have come a long way since the demise of communism and over the last two decades have experienced a great deal of social "turbulence" that has brought disillusionment about both rightwing and leftwing political parties, which have proved to be equally morally corrupt. These experiences seem to have given way to a social climate propitious for the formation of strange and controversial populist political forces. The phenomenon of thriving populism is also related to failures in social and economic reform. How might these tendencies affect the development of Europe in the future?
GD: The current political and economic crisis – post September 2001 and post September 2008 – occurred during a period when the EU had embarked on both enhanced integration and enlargement, which was placing additional strain on its regulatory capacity. It is now apparent that a single currency without a sovereign state to back it up produces outcomes that undermine the very possibility of integration in any meaningful sense. Within the eurozone, the member states have lost the power to devalue their currency, leading to an unsustainable situation of economic and political bankruptcy. Given the absence of an EU-level public budget, it is hardly surprising that Europeans are increasingly looking to other sources of solidarity. The new politics are anti-systemic and have a lot to do with the crisis that has been brought about by capitalism since 2008. In central and eastern Europe, the attraction of economic deregulation and privatization has proven to be irresistible for the ex-communist elites; there the loss of a social conception of society appears to be more costly than in the West, where the tradition of social democracy remains strong.
AS: In Inventing Europe you note that, after the fall of Soviet communism, the identity of western Europe can no longer be constructed according to the rules of the Cold War. One external threat – previously associated with communism – was replaced by another: the spectre of Islam. This observation now seems to be supported by much more evidence than it was possible to provide in, say, 1995. How, in your opinion, are changing relations with Islam redrawing the concept of Europe and European culture since 9/11?
GD: I think the spectre of Islam becoming the new enemy has been much exaggerated. Of course, developments within political Islam have been important in changing perceptions, but I do not think there is much evidence to justify the claim that there is something like a clash of civilizations occurring. The relation between Europe and Islam cannot be easily summed up as a single or continuous one. Islam is part of Europe's civilizational heritage and, as a result of migration in recent decades, a European Islam now exists that can be viewed as the latest expression of a long history of European-Islamic links.
AS: In some parts of Europe, the idea of Europe is still strongly associated with Christianity, despite the fact that Christianity does not feature in the official discourse of the European Union – though, as we know, the late Pope John Paul II made conscious attempts to persuade European establishment of the importance of preserving this part of Europe's cultural and spiritual heritage. One can hardly deny that, at least historically, Christianity is its most essential part. So why are policy-makers today so negative about embracing Christianity, at least as something that has culturally affected and formed certain aspects of Europeanness? Is there a fear of cultural or ideological hegemony? Some would perhaps be inclined to ask whether, by sustaining such fears, we aren't rejecting an important part of Europe's spiritual legacy.
GD: Europe is not a unified hegemon, despite the efforts of the EU, but highly pluralized religiously and, despite the presence of state churches in some countries, relatively secular. Christianity itself has been a source of division as much as unity. Given the diverse forms of Christianity that developed in the western and eastern parts of the Roman Empire, the legacy of the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation and modern secularism, the Christian legacy is by no means clearly defined. Much of modern Europe was shaped in a process of secularization in which Church and State were gradually separated. The conflicts of the early modern period over the confessional identities of the European states established long-lasting tensions and much of modernity emerged in opposition and renunciation of the Christian heritage. To state that Europe is defined by Christianity is too straightforward, since the internal divisions within Christianity have been the source of many of the divisions within Europe. Yet there is no denying the tremendous impact of Christianity in the shaping of Europe. The debate about the inclusion of a special recognition of Christianity in the preamble to the proposed European Constitution is a good example of this: as is well known, the conclusion was that the European heritage is not specifically defined by Christianity. Christianity shaped European history but did so in way that undermined the possibility of cultural unity.
AS: In the book you discussed issues of European geopolitics, noting differences between south and north in some European countries, or divisions between east and west in Europe as a whole. How relevant are these differences are today? Do they still play a part in shaping Europe's future?
GD: They are still relevant. I have argued for a notion of a "post-western Europe" as a characterization of Europe today, a Europe divided along different geopolitical lines and shaped by different routes to modernity. The notion of Europe is not underpinned by a fixed spatial or temporal reference point, but is continuously constructed in discourses about it.
AS: After enlargement, Europe's eastern part symbolically "moved" from the periphery to what, using Wallerstein's term, can be called Europe's "semi-periphery". How has the ascent of eastern Europe influenced the self-image of contemporary Europe, which for decades was somewhat ignorant of its eastern areas? Despite the numerous controversies and problems cropping up one after the other in the post-communist realm, how are these countries affecting the general vision of Europe?
GD: That is exactly what I mean by the notion of a "post-western Europe" – a conception of Europe not entirely fixed and shaped by the founding western core states, nor one defined exclusively in terms of the historical heritage of western Europe. Any account of the European heritage will today have include the historical experience of those parts of Europe that were shaped by the Ottoman and the Russian empires. This will entail a shift to the margins and a view of Europe that gives more centrality to its relation with those parts of the world that lie at its borders, which of course have constantly shifted throughout history.
Original in English
First published by Kulturos barai 3/2012 (Lithuanian version); Eurozine (English version)
Contributed by Kulturos barai © Gerard Delanty / Almantas Samalavicius / Kulturos barai / Eurozine
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Why Questioning "Creative Destruction" Is Fair Game
First, lets understand that we are in the middle of a Republican Primary to nominate the GOP challenger to fire Obama. That being said, one's record is fair game so long as it ties to how one might govern.
Second, just because the Beltway and media elite have anointed their nominee does not meet the gloves have to be off for the duration of the nomination process. Records matter and are fair game. Remember, the voters have not spoken.
The backlash by the Washington and media elite towards Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry over their questioning the 'creative destruction' tactics used by Bain Capital under Romney's tenure does the nomination process a huge disservice. That is why we have primaries - to vet the candidates out to determine who is the most qualified and best positioned to win the election.
Read this commentary by Governor Mike Huckabee over this issue:
Romney has come under a lot of fire for Bain Capital's investments in some companies that were then scaled down with layoffs to become profitable. That's been demonized thoroughly by the media as corporate raiding, But it's surprising to see so many Republicans embrace that leftwing argument against capitalism. It's terrible for the workers who lose their jobs, and nobody likes to see viable companies looted and destroyed. But if downsizing can turn around a failing company, then at least it prevents all the jobs from being lost, and it sets up a stronger company that can grow and start rehiring. The term for this among people who aren't hostile to capitalism is "creative destruction." Bad companies have to die to make way for stronger companies, in the same way that old trees fall over to make way for new trees. The other alternative, the Obama way, is to use vast amounts of taxpayer money to prop up companies that are failing in the marketplace. Sometimes, with a big enough cash transfusion, they survive, like GM. Other times, all the money in the world can't stop them from going belly-up and losing all their jobs, like Solyndra. But at least when a company that's bought out by investors goes bankrupt, the money that's lost was voluntarily invested, not taken from taxpayers at gunpoint.
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In pure business terms, Bain Capital is perfectly within the reigns of a capitalist model to acquire funds to fund start-ups (such as Staples and Sports Authority), launch IPOs (such as Blackstone Group) or even finance creative destruction projects such as they did with KB Toys and American Pad & Paper. Bain Capital and other venture capital firms are also perfectly within the boundaries of venture capitalism to make money on all three of these activities.
So why is this even an issue?
'Creative Destruction' if done by Company A who acquired Company B via a takeover or merger for the sole basis of acquiring accounts or assets is perfectly within the boundaries of capitalism. That is survival of the fittest and every free-market capitalist understands that.
When Bain Capital who pools in Wall Street and fat cat money via wealth financiers does creative destruction, they are doing solely for profit and on the backs of everyone involved. The entire basis of the transaction exists with the intention of gutting the firm firing everyone. There is no emotion involved in this transaction, and the human capital is discarded.
You see, it will take years of integration and consolidation for Company B to be a shell of what it once was. Company B most likely could not stand on its own but for the interest of the customers and employees, the firm was acquired. The most likely gradual layoffs would not be based on others making a profit on the demise of the firm. The demise of Company B was due to its inability to stand on its own two feet. The decreased expenditure and most likely higher net income are natural when a company reduces staff to lower human capital expenses.
That is natural. Profiting from a financial transaction conducted to raid a corporation is not capitalism. It is profiting on the misery of others!
To further exacerbate the issue of creative destruction, Bain Capital profited from a federal bailout of a Kentucky steel mill during Romney's tenure. Worldwide Grinding Systems, later renamed GS Technologies after it was acquired by Bain Capital closed its doors ten years after Bain acquired it. When it did fail, Bain Capital profited from a federal bailout to the tune of $44 million due to the underfunded employee pension system. The profit Bain netted was $12 million on its initial investment of $8 million and over $4 million in consulting fees. Source here.
Adding insult to injury the bailout came after Bain Capital denied severance and health care benefits that they initial promised when Bain acquired the steel mill in 1993.
Tying it All Together
Those bashing Gingrich and Perry as being unfriendly to capitalism are missing the underlying point of why this issue came up. How can a Christian, much less compassionate Christian seeking the highest office in the land even advocate such heartless business practices?
More importantly how can Mitt Romney who as of this writing is leading in national polls and could very well be the Republican nominee challenge President Obama on job creation, when his firm that co-founded adopted 'destructive capitalism' for pure profit as a product?
It's bad enough we have the current President who hates capitalism, we do not need the GOP nominee who profited on the misery of others after they were laid off.
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I'm getting ready to spend a month away from New York! I'm on my way right night to Storrs, Connecticut to be in Disaster! at the Connecticut Repertory Theater. Get your tickets here!
I'm very excited to play Professor Scheider again, but a little devastated to be away from home for so long. Even though I travel a lot, I'm rarely away for long periods of time. I miss my doggies! The good news is I'll be there with Jack (Plotnick) who wrote Disaster! with me (and is directing again) and one of my closest friends, Andréa Burns, will be there soon rehearsing for the theatre's next production, which is Sweeney Todd (she's playing the Beggar Woman).
Jack and Andréa met years ago outside an audition room. Andréa had seen Pageant the night before, which had all the female contestants played by men, when she saw Jack she approached him and told him that she had seen him go on the night before and thought he was fantastic. Jack, blank-faced and cold, replied that he wasn't involved with the show Pageant and didn't know why she thought he performed in drag. Andréa was mortified…and then Jack told her he was kidding and he was indeed on the night before. It sounds like a crazy way to bond a friendship, but I think Andréa loved it because it's very similar to what she did a year before that: Andréa was cast in the tour of West Side Story as one of the dancing Shark girls and the understudy to Maria. Even though she could do all the steps, she was by far the worst dancer in the cast, which featured cast members from Jerome Robbins Broadway and THE Nicole Fosse, the daughter of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. Andréa reasoned to herself that every show had a "lemon" and she indeed was that lemon. Devanand Janki (who later went on to brilliantly direct and choreograph Zanna, Don't!) started chatting with her at lunch. When he found out she was the Maria understudy he told her he hoped she went on one day. Andréa was in such a weird place emotionally that she confidently said, "Well, my Maria is very different." Dev, intrigued, asked how. Andréa, using her improv skills and "Yes And-ing" herself told him that she actually belts the entire show.
confused/horrified, Dev's whole face lit up and he told her he could not wait til she went on! She immediately told him she was joking and they've been close friends ever since. As a matter of fact, Dev started a stunning theatre retreat in Connecticut called "Live & In Color," which develops new work that celebrates diversity. Andréa is going to be headlining their big gala on June 4. Read all about it and get tickets here.
On Seth Speaks, I had composing team Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, who are represented on Broadway by Anastasia and Once On This Island. It's so incredible for a composing team to have two shows running at the same time on Broadway and I told them I always thought it was so cool that Jerry Herman said he would often watch Act 1 of Mame and then hightail it over to the St. James and watch Act 2 of Hello, Dolly! .They said that Once On This Island is the perfect length so they can watch the entire show and then hightail it over to watch Act 2 of Anastasia!
That reminds me of when I was subbing lots of different Broadway shows and when I'd be leaving the theatre after conducting/playing An Inspector Calls I would see one of my other shows, Les Miz, just starting their intermission. I knew that while I'd be in my apartment ordering Chinese food and watching The Simpsons reruns, the Les Miz orchestra had another hour-and-a-half of playing to do. What's the French word for "suckers"?
Lynn used to write music and lyrics for Schoolhouse Rock (She wrote and sang classics like "Interplanet Janet" and "The Preamble") and, turns out, Stephen used to write lyrics, as well! He said I wouldn't know anything he had ever written…and then proceeded to mention a song he wrote that I love! When my friend Tim graduated AMDA back in the early '90s, our friend Deb Rascoe sang a hilarious song while dressed as the Statue of Liberty called "Who Wants a Date with a Tall Green Lady?" I thought it was hi-larious and had no idea Stephen wrote it! Speaking of Flaherty and Ahrens, they wrote the brilliant Ragtime and I had a great time performing "Wheels of a Dream" with Audra McDonald…as a trio. Watch!
I did a wonderful fundraiser for Theater Three in Port Jefferson, New York last weekend and John Fugelsang was the host. John and I both work on SiriusXM as hosts, but I had not idea he was a theatre kid from Long Island. He told everyone that he walked through the doors of the theatre when he was 11 years old and basically never left until he graduated high school. He talked so beautifully about how theatre gave him a community and a purpose.
The first part of the fundraiser began with an original musical called Life, The Theatre, and Other Unlikelihoods and written by the theatre's artistic director, Jeffrey Sanzel and a few of his closest collaborators. It gave a very inciteful and hilarious look into what it means to pursue the arts…the indignities and the triumphs. And the cast of locals were so great! It made me so jealous I didn't have a local theatre to perform in when I was a kid. The local theatre was Broadway…and they were decidedly not interested in me.
Speaking of Broadway and Jeffrey Sanzel, he asked me to autograph some of my work. And by some, I mean my entire oeuvre (see photo)! He told me he listens to the audio book of Broadway Nights three to four times a year. Where are my residuals? P.S. If you haven't listened, take a look at the amazing stars who play characters in the audio book: my character is having an affair with Andy Karl, I'm doing a musical directed by Jonathan Groff, my annoying assistant is Kristin Chenoweth, my psycho nanny when I was a child is Andrea Martin and that's just half the cast! You can get it here.
I also had Jamie Bernstein on Seth Speaks; she just released a wonderful book about growing up as one of the daughters of Leonard Bernstein. It's called Famous Father Girl. She said it's based on the nickname that one of her classmates called her after the girl saw Jamie's father on TV and realized he was famous. Jamie said the little girl soon began calling her "Famous Monkey Girl," but she opted to go with the first nickname for the book title. The book is a wonderful glimpse into a childhood filled with extremely talented, extremely socially conscious, fun-loving people. I asked her about Lauren (Betty) Bacall and she said that Betty was very kind to her family, but it wasn't fun to come across her if you were a food server, doorman or anyone else in the service profession. Sounds wonderful.
From what I know, Lauren Bacall sounds like one of those tough people who want you to be just as tough. I remember that Jerry Mitchell was a newcomer to Broadway when he became the swing in Woman Of The Year starring Lauren Bacall. When Jerry went on for the first time Lauren berated him with "You didn't lift me high enough, you were out of formation and you were late with your entrance!" He could have apologized profusely, but he knew he was super prepared and did a perfect job so he countered with "I lifted you the perfect height, I was completely in formation and my entrance was exactly right!" And, true to every sitcom plot, they got along amazingly from then on.
Speaking of Bernstein, here's one of my deconstructions of Bernstein's brilliance (And Barbara Cook's). Watch then peace out!


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The staff and students in the Shadow Hills Knights community are mourning the death of Christopher Trujillo, who worked as an English teacher at the high school and died of COVID-19 complications.
Trujillo was apart of the Knights family for the past five years.
In a message sent out by school administrators, Trujillo was described as a teacher that "touched the lives of so many of our Knights… building their ability to express themselves through writing and helping them develop a deep love of literature."
Trujillo passed Saturday, September 11, 2021.
Desert Sands Unified School District released the following statement Monday night:
"The past few days have brought great loss to Shadow Hills High School and to Desert Sands Unified School District. A student, a teacher, and a young alumni all passed away during this time, said Mary Perry DSUSD spokesperson.
The District is referring to the deaths of 23-year-old Isaiah Ortega-Dade, a former SHHS football star who died after a hit and run Saturday morning in Desert Hot Springs. And the death of Oscar Juarez Barrios who was a senior at SHHS and died in a car accident Sunday morning in Palm Desert.
"All three of these young men will be missed but remembered," Perry said in the release.
The school will provide grief counselors on site to all students and staff.
At this time there is no information about funeral arrangements.


Table 40.5 summarizes the options available in the LSMEANS statement. If you specify the BAYES statement, the ADJUST=, STEPDOWN, and LINES options are ignored. The PLOTS= option is not available for a maximum likelihood analysis; it is available only for a Bayesian analysis.
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Daley Takes The Mike
Steve Relishing Life At Top Of Table
In his Molineux pomp.
Steve Daley, once Britain's most expensive footballer, is fast becoming one of the most sought-after players on the after-dinner circuit.
The former Wolves midfielder is taking a festive breather before resuming his strenuous round of engagements all over the country.
"Between November 1 and December 15, I did 35 lunches or dinners, sometimes two in a day," he said.
"I've already got 40 dates in my diary for 2009, including two I've accepted today, and haven't got a single Friday night free in March or May.
"There was one weekend when I went down to Cornwall on the Friday and drove up to Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the Saturday.
"Then I was in Birmingham at the start of this week, when I worked alongside Dean Saunders. But it's great because I love doing it – and it's good money."
Daley, now 55, scored 43 goals in 244 games for Wolves from 1971 to 1979 before joining Manchester City for £1.437m in the same week that Andy Gray moved to Molineux from Aston Villa.
He was in the squad but not the team when Wolves won the League Cup in 1974 and had departed by the time they re-claimed the same trophy six years later.
"I tell stories rather than jokes and my delivery tends to be of a self-depracating nature," he added. "Well, I can hardly talk about the things I won in my career, can I?
"In 2001, The Observer voted me the biggest waste of money in football, so that gives me plenty of material to put myself down over.
Not such a big success out of the gold and black.
"I still remember the sea of smiling faces and all the cheering at Man City – unfortunately, though, that was when I was leaving, not signing.
"And I tell the story of how I played in one match in America against New York Cosmos when I looked down the line-ups beforehand and realised I was the only player I hadn't heard of."
Among the favourite 2008 'gigs' for Daley, who also works three days a week as a salesman for Wolves Academy sponsors J Bishop & Company, have been a dinner to raise money for cancer-stricken former Molineux midfielder Ian Cartwright and a reunion of Manchester City's 1969 FA Cup winning side.
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Including dividends, the S&P 500 Total Return index, in the five years ended September 30, 2021, gained an astonishing +118%, an average annual growth rate of nearly 24%! That's more than double the stock market's long-term annual total return of approximately +10% going back 200 years, as described by Wharton Business School's professor Jeremy Siegel in his seminal book, Stocks for the Long Run!
The amazing return came despite the COVID pandemic bear market plunge in February and March 2020, when stocks plunged by -33.9%, the S&P 500 total return more than doubled in this fraught-filled five-year period.
The performance of the five largest companies in the S&P 500 -- Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook – has led the recovery in stocks. And, because the major stock indexes are weighted by market capitalization, these five stocks account for 25% of the performance of the S&P 500. To be sure, the super returns on these five stocks powered the amazing returns. Yet their valuations are not out of control, if you compare the P/E ratios on these companies to their estimated earnings growth.
With a $2.4 trillion market–capitalization on Apple, and $2.2 trillion market-cap on Microsoft, these super-caps are expected to grow their profits at 31% and 27%, respectively. As a result, the Super Caps are trading at low PEG ratios relative to the other 495 stock stocks in the S&P 500 index.
A PEG ratio is a company's price/earnings ratio divided by its earnings growth rate for the year ahead. A PEG ratio adjusts the traditional price/earnings metric for valuing a company's stock by accounting for its expected earnings growth rate.
These five stocks may appear expensive relative to the S&P 500's average P/E ratio of 21.9, but their earnings growth rate is reflected in the PEG ratios, and they are cheap by this important metric relative to the other 495 companies in the index. For example, the expected earnings growth rate for Amazon is 64%. Amazon's PEG ratio is 1.0% versus the S&P 500's PEG ratio of 3.1.
Stocks are risky investments and they are volatile. The S&P 500 suffered intraday declines of 2% this past summer and one-day losses of more than 1%, but it repeatedly bounced back and hit new highs. Uncertainty about the risk of the Covid-19 variant as well as inflation is likely to cause big drops in the S&P 500 in the days ahead.
Yet stocks are the growth engine of a retirement portfolio and a key in building a tax-smart investment plan with the objective of lasting the rest of your life.
This table entitled was derived from a class for financial professionals by Fritz Meyer, an independent financial economist, on Advisors4Advisors on October 13, 2021.
The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index closed Friday at 4,471.37, gaining +0.75% from Thursday and +1.8% from last week. The index is up +66.59% from the March 23, 2020, bear market low.


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Courses taken in a Michigan State University Study Abroad program in Asia may be counted toward the minor with the permission of the Director of the Asian Studies Center and the student's advisor. The Minor in Asian Studies provides an opportunity for students to create a multidisciplinary specialty with Asia as the focus.
MSU Libraries received voluminous materials from India through the Library of Congress acquisition program until 1987. Since then collecting from the entire range of Asian areas from Afghanistan south and east to the Pacific has been emphasized, in support of MSU's Department of Education Title VI National Resources Center for Asia.
Biography: Leydi M Egan is an International Student & Scholar Advisor with OISS. She grew up in Merida, Mexico and has a background in Psychology from her studies in Mexico. She moved to Michigan in 2005 and since then she has earned her ESL certificate and Associate's Degree from Lansing Community College and a B.A. in Human Resources from Michigan State University.