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Alex Berenson
American
Author
Born:
Jan 6
,
1973
Big
Buy
Companies
Financial
Technology
Will
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Zig Ziglar
Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.
Alex Berenson
News
Market
Plumber
Insights
Soon
His
Expect
Offering
Maybe
Anytime
Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.
Alex Berenson
Technology
Business
Big
Would-Be
Take
Suppliers
Big Companies
Often
Stakes
Use
Companies
Leverage
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.
Alex Berenson
Age
Old
Sunday
First
Seems
Through
Economy
Couple
Well
Make
Scissors
Expect
Just
Cents
Newspaper
Who
Pair
Million
Save
When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.
Alex Berenson
Plants
Power
Way
Running
More
More Power
Steam
Simply
Get
Region
Full
With 950 reporters and 79 bureaus, Bloomberg competes to break news with Dow Jones, Reuters and Bridge News along with newspaper Web sites, dozens of smaller Internet sites, and even gossipy chat rooms.
Alex Berenson
News
Internet
Web
Web Sites
Chat
Smaller
Along
Reporters
Sites
Break
Newspaper
Rooms
Bridge
Even
Dozens
Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets tighten and wages rise, corporate profits can continue to climb as long as worker productivity is growing faster than overall wages.
Alex Berenson
Job
Long
Faster
Increase
Adding
Corporate
Markets
Rise
Higher
Overall
Without
Tighten
Enables
Climb
Wages
Continue
Sales
Than
Worker
Workers
Productivity
Companies
Even
Growing
Profits
Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.
Alex Berenson
Business
National
Rates
Economies
Learned
Greatly
Manage
Banks
Central
Interest
Interest Rates
Century
Lowering
Cycles
Raising
For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.
Alex Berenson
Management
Car
Value
Analyst
Market
Say
Weak
Steadily
Tempting
General
General Motors
Share
Investors
Motors
Target
North
Decades
North American
American
Auto
Declined
Company
Suffers
Two
The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.
Alex Berenson
Success
Sometimes
Systems
Seem
Networking
Networks
Prices
Like
Equipment
Perpetual
Stock
Companies
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.
Alex Berenson
Big
Increasingly
Spend
Recognition
Rely
Take
Tens
Support
Call
Big Companies
Dollars
Provide
Handle
Just
Orders
Information
Process
Centers
Which
Customer
Requests
Companies
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Speech
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.
Alex Berenson
Exceeded
Price
Shares
Supply
Demand
Offering
Available
Far
Many
Initial
Early
One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.
Alex Berenson
Internet
Own
Sold
Once
Way
Airline
Dreamed
Variety
Price
Consumer
Bought
Name
Goods
Tickets
Offering
Transforming
Customers
Your
Products
Companies
Including
Chance
Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive alternative investment.
Alex Berenson
Good
Considered
Cost
Borrowing
Rates
Investment
Attractive
Make
Alternative
Because
Stocks
Interest
Interest Rates
Lower
Less
Bonds
From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.
Alex Berenson
Life
Long
Gave
Savings
William
Favorite
More
Simon
Long Island
Investors
Retired
Like
Couples
Island
Were
Queens
His
Targets
Than
Survivors
Stole
Holocaust
Who
Million
Widows
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
Alex Berenson
Faith
Science
Economics
Own
Pretends
Data
More
Computers
Doctrines
Equations
Faiths
Clog
Accurately
Really
Each
Fill
Set
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.
Alex Berenson
Made
Example
Changes
Relative
Markets
Examine
Price
Consumers
Study
Goods
For Example
How
Affect
Sales
Governments
Oranges
Different
Might
Choices
Businesses
Specific
Apples
Services
The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
Alex Berenson
Control
Ability
Rates
Fed
Primary
Over
Economy
Short-Term
Interest
Interest Rates
Lower
Raise
Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.
Alex Berenson
Example
Pay
More
Share
Shares
Between
For Example
Spread
Spreads
Seller
Sellers
Than
Bigger
Mean
Cents
Means
Pays
Gaps
Receive
Buyer
Receives
Buyers
I know it's a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring.
Alex Berenson
Me
Trust
Once
Boring
Dated
Know
Cliche
Trust Me
Canada
Canadian
Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual sales of manufactured homes more than doubled, to 374,000 from 174,000.
Alex Berenson
Good
More
Good Times
Never
Most
Annual
Housing
Were
Sales
Trailer
Times
Than
America
Noticed
Homes
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
Alex Berenson
Will
Borrowing
Costs
Ratings
Higher
Investment
Most
Although
Debt
Survive
Grade
Lowered
Companies
Even
Below
Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.
Alex Berenson
Every
States
Investors
Traded
Quarter
Sales
Report
Companies
United
Publicly
United States
Profits
Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced.
Alex Berenson
Buy
Strong
Too
Earnings
Willing
Investors
Understand
How
Been
Stocks
Reported
Produced
Even
Trust-me companies are companies whose financial results gallop ahead of their businesses, companies with seemingly perfect control over their quarterly sales and profits. Companies whose financial statements are loaded with footnotes: companies that short-sellers often attack but rarely dent.
Alex Berenson
Financial
Control
Statements
Rarely
Seemingly
Attack
Perfect
Results
Over
Sales
Dent
Often
Gallop
Businesses
Companies
Whose
Profits
Loaded
The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely.
Alex Berenson
Quality
Varies
Junk
Credit
Widely
Bonds
Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.
Alex Berenson
Employees
Savings
Enron
Plunge
Cost
Most
Also
Court
Bankruptcy
Unfortunately
Many
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