"I can make a case the market will go to a new alltime high, " asserts Steinhardt, from his modernistic work area, between glances at his thin trading screen.

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In a college further down the road in Cedar Rapids, the 76-year-old congressman, standing in front of a funky modernistic stainless steel statue, points out gleefully that there doesn't seem to be anyone over 40 at his rally.

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