Alex Berenson Quotes
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Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.
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Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.
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At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.
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In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.
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Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
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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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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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Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
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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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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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Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
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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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Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.
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In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
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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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Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.
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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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Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
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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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Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.
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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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Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
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For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.