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 Image
In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
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 Image
Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services.… — 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
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
For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because… — 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
Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies,… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company's pricing plans for Avastin - around… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business. — 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 Image
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 Image
“If stupid people didn’t insist on thinking they were smart, the world would be a lot simpler.” — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
