Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Benefits are rarely made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where companies must report the pay and options that… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
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… — Alex Berenson Copy Share
As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors. — Alex Berenson Copy Share
“If stupid people didn’t insist on thinking they were smart, the world would be a lot simpler.” — Alex Berenson Copy Share
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… — Alex Berenson Copy Share
“Rosette disappeared onto the dance floor. Wells sat in silence for a minute, watching the dancers. The worldwide cult of fast money spent stupidly.… — Alex Berenson Copy Share
In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets… — Alex Berenson Copy Share
Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing. — Alex Berenson Copy Share
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… — Alex Berenson Copy Share
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… — Alex Berenson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.' — Alex Berenson Copy Share
Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost… — Alex Berenson Copy Share
Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates. — Alex Berenson Copy Share
