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Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make. (Alex Berenson)
In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined. View quote
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For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge. View quote
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The world is filled with great sporting events. View quote
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An attack on the scale of Sept. 11 would rock the markets and the economy. View quote
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Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance. View quote
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The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options. View quote
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The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy. View quote
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Determining how many asbestos suits have been filed or how much companies have spent to resolve them is difficult. Cases are filed in state and federal courts, and many companies do not disclose their spending on settlements. View quote
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The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees. View quote
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Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them are valued at extremely high levels relative to their current earnings. (Alex Berenson)
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. View quote
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While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling the offering and reaps much of the fees and profit. View quote
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Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business. View quote
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Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business. View quote
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Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.' View quote
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For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States. View quote
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When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power. View quote
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To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth. View quote
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Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter. View quote
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Predicting the market is always tough. (Alex Berenson)
Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges. View quote
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Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported. View quote
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Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm. View quote
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Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands. View quote
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