Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Trust-me companies are companies whose financial results gallop ahead of their businesses, companies with seemingly perfect control over their quarterly sales and… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets tighten and wages rise, corporate profits can continue… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books. — 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
