Alex Berenson Quotes

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Alex Berenson

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Birth : January 6, 1973

The world is filled with great sporting events.

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Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

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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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For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.

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Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.

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Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

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At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.

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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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Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

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Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.

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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.

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In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque, while the Sunnis had nearly a dozen. To worship, the Shiites had to cross an inconveniently located bridge over the sewage canal to Shula.

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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.

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I know it's a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring.

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Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

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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.

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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.

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Predicting the market is always tough.

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On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades can be matched directly. But most larger trades are delivered to the specialist on the floor of the exchange by human brokers, a system that big investors view as increasingly inefficient.

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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.

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