Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make. — 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
Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Fannie Mae has never publicly disclosed how much money it could lose if interest rates rose 1.5 percentage points in a very… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from… — 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
Financial news services and other media organizations get press releases 15 minutes before they are distributed to the general public, fueling a… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
In a Ponzi scheme, a promoter pays back his initial investors with money he has raised from new investors. Eventually, the promoter… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in… — 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
“Rosette disappeared onto the dance floor. Wells sat in silence for a minute, watching the dancers. The worldwide cult of fast money… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors.… — 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
