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Plumbing is usually boring.
Predicting the market is always tough.
Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.
The world is filled with great sporting events.
The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely.
Even technology companies get good news sometimes.
Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen.
Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises.
Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.
Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.
As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.
An attack on the scale of Sept. 11 would rock the markets and the economy.
Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.
Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.
If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.
I know it's a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring.
Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.
Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.
Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.
In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.
Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.
When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.
Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.
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.
At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.
The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.
Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.
For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.
For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.
Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.
Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'
Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.
For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.
Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.
For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.
Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.
Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
Electronic communications networks match trades between investors directly, without using a market maker or specialist as an intermediary.
Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.
Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced.