Alex Berenson Quotes
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As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have.
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Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.
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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
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The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.
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Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.
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Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They're lousy to watch.
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For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.
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Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges.
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Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
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As the Nasdaq soared in 1999 and early 2000, demand for many offerings far exceeded the supply of shares available at the initial offering price.
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Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.
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Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
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Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.
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In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
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Fannie Mae has never publicly disclosed how much money it could lose if interest rates rose 1.5 percentage points in a very short period of time.
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As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.
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Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.
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For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
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Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on 'call centers' to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely on speech recognition not just to handle requests for information but to process customer orders.
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Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.
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Traditionally, companies have made major announcements before or after the close of trading so that all interested investors and analysts are apprised of the news before trading resumes in their stocks.
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Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.
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Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.
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Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.