Alex Berenson

Predicting the market is always tough.

— Alex Berenson

Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.

— Alex Berenson

Plumbing is usually boring.

— Alex Berenson

Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen.

— Alex Berenson

The world is filled with great sporting events.

— Alex Berenson

The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely.

— Alex Berenson

Even technology companies get good news sometimes.

— Alex Berenson

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

— Alex Berenson

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

— Alex Berenson

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

— Alex Berenson

Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises.

— Alex Berenson

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

— Alex Berenson

“Evelyn belted out the song, her voice sliding across the notes like a car on an icy road.”

— Alex Berenson

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

— Alex Berenson

Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.

— Alex Berenson

Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.

— Alex Berenson

Benefits are rarely made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where companies must report the pay and options that…

— Alex Berenson

It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising…

— Alex Berenson

Traditionally, companies have made major announcements before or after the close of trading so that all interested investors and analysts are apprised…

— Alex Berenson

Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.

— Alex Berenson

As the Nasdaq soared in 1999 and early 2000, demand for many offerings far exceeded the supply of shares available at the…

— Alex Berenson

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

— Alex Berenson

Electronic communications networks match trades between investors directly, without using a market maker or specialist as an intermediary.

— Alex Berenson

Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so…

— Alex Berenson

I think when you have lawyers arguing over whether you can keep a detainee at 46 degrees... for two hours, that's not…

— Alex Berenson

In a Ponzi scheme, a promoter pays back his initial investors with money he has raised from new investors. Eventually, the promoter…

— Alex Berenson

Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because…

— Alex Berenson

The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure…

— Alex Berenson

“We’re in different beds but we have the same dream.” Li smiled. Cao had reversed the Chinese proverb of “different dreams in…

— Alex Berenson

After a generation of misrule under Mr. Hussein, who built a huge military infrastructure while neglecting civilian investment, and a dozen years…

— Alex Berenson

Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum…

— Alex Berenson

“Rosette disappeared onto the dance floor. Wells sat in silence for a minute, watching the dancers. The worldwide cult of fast money…

— Alex Berenson

Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.

— Alex Berenson

As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.

— Alex Berenson

The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

— Alex Berenson

Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.

— Alex Berenson

In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.

— Alex Berenson

When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.

— Alex Berenson

“If stupid people didn’t insist on thinking they were smart, the world would be a lot simpler.”

— Alex Berenson

Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

— Alex Berenson