Fannie Mae has never publicly disclosed how much money it could lose if interest rates rose 1.5 percentage points in a very short period of time. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged. — 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
Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.' — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
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 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
