Alex Berenson quotes

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do. (Alex Berenson)
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price. View quote
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Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience. View quote
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Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language. View quote
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Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day. View quote
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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. View quote
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The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business. View quote
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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits. View quote
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Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one of those games involves popular offerings. View quote
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In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors. View quote
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Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors. (Alex Berenson)
Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt. View quote
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It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive. View quote
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For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public. View quote
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Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen. View quote
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Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer. View quote
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Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws. View quote
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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. View quote
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Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars. View quote
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To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply. View quote
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Even technology companies get good news sometimes. (Alex Berenson)
Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, an examination of overall supply and demand. At the broadest level, macroeconomists want to understand why some countries grow faster than others and which government policies can help growth. View quote
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Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced. View quote
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Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time. View quote
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The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it can as quickly as it can. You don't really care so much if the company made a dollar last year; you want to know what it's going to make this year. View quote
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