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Combined, the top 500 American corporations have something like $2tn sitting in their wallets, they don't want to invest, though until a) the 2012 elections, and b) the Eurozone crisis finds some kind of resolution.

Notice that they don't care what the results are from those two things, as that just changes where the money goes. But they can't make the ultimate decisions until the uncertainty diminishes.