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The State of the Market -- Part I

By Jim Cramer

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 This is the first of a four-part series on the market we find ourselves in as we wind down 2009. Be sure to check back all day for the remaining three installments. September is now full-bore upon us and it is time to examine where the strength of this stock market lies and what it says about the direction of the economy in the coming months. It is also time to reflect that many stocks are strong even as the chatter about many of the groups is negative. Mind you, I am not just talking about the endless negativity of The Wall Street Journal's "Heard on the Street" columnists. (Oh my, with the exception of Peter Eavis -- the best in print -- they are seemingly constitutionally incapable of writing anything but saturnine "insights.") I am talking about the wholesale fretting that is a given among almost...

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