Alex Berenson

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.

— Alex Berenson

An attack on the scale of Sept. 11 would rock the markets and the economy.

— Alex Berenson

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

— Alex Berenson

I know it's a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring.

— Alex Berenson

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

— Alex Berenson

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

— Alex Berenson

At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.

— Alex Berenson

Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.

— Alex Berenson

The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq…

— Alex Berenson

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

— Alex Berenson

Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.

— Alex Berenson

Studies show that Avastin can prolong the lives of patients with late-stage breast and lung cancer by several months when the drug…

— Alex Berenson

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

— Alex Berenson

Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.

— Alex Berenson

For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

— Alex Berenson

Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to…

— Alex Berenson

It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial…

— Alex Berenson

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then…

— Alex Berenson

African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from…

— Alex Berenson

The lower spreads mean lower costs for investors, because Nasdaq investors generally do not trade directly with one another. Instead, they usually…

— Alex Berenson

Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on 'call centers' to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely…

— Alex Berenson

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

The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and…

— Alex Berenson

The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual…

— Alex Berenson

For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

— Alex Berenson

Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial…

— Alex Berenson

As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I…

— Alex Berenson

Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive…

— Alex Berenson

With 950 reporters and 79 bureaus, Bloomberg competes to break news with Dow Jones, Reuters and Bridge News along with newspaper Web…

— Alex Berenson

Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one…

— Alex Berenson

Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply…

— Alex Berenson

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

— Alex Berenson

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to…

— Alex Berenson

Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual…

— Alex Berenson

Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality…

— Alex Berenson

“the reason he had known about Islam long before he studied the religion at Dartmouth. He was one-quarter Muslim by birth. Noor…

— Alex Berenson

Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are…

— Alex Berenson

While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling…

— Alex Berenson

For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.

— Alex Berenson

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed,…

— Alex Berenson