Quotes by Gary Weiss - Page 1

The flip side of humiliation is pride.
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Flip
Humiliation
Pride
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Glorious
Troubled
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Arabia
Council
Human Rights
Rights
Saudi Arabia
Human Rights Human Rights
Seat
Human Human Rights Rights
Rooting
Saudi
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Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
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Bucks
Fund
Managers
Trading
Futures
George
Hedge
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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Fraud
Face
Historically
Legitimate
Outright
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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Autumn
Bankruptcy
Burning
Cash
Hype
Excessive
Leaves
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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Anti Semitic
Prejudice
Only Country
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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Finance
George
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Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
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Former
Modest
Gingrich
Newt
Newt Gingrich
Speaker
Surprisingly
Wall Street
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Arrested
Consumers
Courtesy
Entitled
Letters
Collection
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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Running
Arsenal
Boards
Internet
Millions
Posts
Savvy
Essential
Investor
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Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.
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Borrowed
Buying
Selling
Shorts
Far
Lower
Price
Shares
Wager
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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Collectors
Complaints
Consistently
Debt
Attorneys
Received
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With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.
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Bucks
Devoted
Enormous
Oil
Trading
Cause
Commodities
Exacerbated
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Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.
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Despite
Drawbacks
Information
Wide
Array
Watched
Carefully
Pros
Provides
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One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.
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Cancer
Conspiracy
Focus
Growth
Intellectual
Problem
Speculation
Times
Promote
Tends
Theories
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For the Amex, which has been casting around for a role for itself, microcaps fill a crucial void - a 'niche' that Amex officials feel has been neglected.
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Casting
Crucial
Neglected
Niche
Officials
Void
Fill
Role
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Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.
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Cases
Endeavor
Score
Ordinarily
Proves
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Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.
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Dating
Distinguished
Fund
Trading
History Long People
Hedge
Insider
Such A Thing
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Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.
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Function
Shorts
Discriminated
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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Average
Dare
Mutual
Since
Lousy
Fact
Funds
In Fact
Managing
Mutual Funds
Striving
Resembling
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At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.
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Boards
Mindless
Scams
Imaginable
Insights
Outright
Stock
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Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.
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Academic
Buying
Investors
Wrong Reasons
Losers
Holding
Numerous
Shown
Stocks
Studies
Whims
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Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.
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Attitude
Accusation
Condescending
Excess
Nations
Correct
Indians
Toward
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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Blair
Corporate
Corporate America
Deny
Liability
Midst
Chain
Circle
Finds
Operating
Standard
Procedure
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In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.
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Bus
Discrimination
Parks
Rosa
Sexual
Refused
Speaking
Wall Street
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I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.
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Beer
Economist
Character Man Real
Considerable
Repute
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Politically Correct
Religious Tolerance
Resent
Tolerance
Slogan
Correct
Historical Fact
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Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators.
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Abuse
Casual
Headache
Investors
Pages
Prone
Perennial
Stock
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Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans.
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Celebrity Status
Espn
Investors
Stock Exchange
Exchange
Floor
Journalists
Maria
Status
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Notion
Riches
Selling
Be The First
Execute
First Step
Gain
Stocks
Trades
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Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.
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Caribbean
Charm
Christian
Enormous
Former
Heritage
India
Population
Settlement
Visitors
European
Large
Town
Some
Reminds
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Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.
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Conspiracy
Selling
Commission
Feed
Exchange
Longtime
Positions
Reported
Securities
Theories
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I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.
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Investors
Paid
Wide
Exchange
Floor
Mainly
Options
Prices
Securities
Spreads
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For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.
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Finance
Banking
Chairs
Funding
Randy
Campaign
Estate
Industries
Insurance
Investigations
Real Estate
Securities
Sources
Subcommittee
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Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it's not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one.
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Collectors
Debt
Illegal
Letters
Type
Collection
Applicable
Bold
Consumer
Disclose
Limitations
Required
Sue
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Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
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Imagination
Antiquity
Humiliating
Rome
Crucified
Rows
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Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies and other businesses a method of hedging against adverse price changes. Instead, they've become just another Wall Street plaything.
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Adverse
Aviation
Gas
Heating
Method
Oil
Wall
Businesses
Companies
Created
Dealers
Street
Futures
Instead
Originally
Plaything
Price
Wall Street
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The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.
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Buying
Deluge
Enthusiasm
Investors
Loser
Marketing
Media
Momentum
Player
Reports
Selling
Short Term
Type
Wall
Armchair
Based
Engage
Expert
Street
Novice
Spawned
Stock
Wall Street
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The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.
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Crisis
Economy
Executives
Financial
Financial Crisis
Reckless
Ruined
Taking Risks
Companies
Failed
Taking
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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Folks
Short Memory
Wall
Above
Dead
Invest
Short
Street
Funds
Hedge
Memory
Regulate
Wall Street
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No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.
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Business
Collectors
Credit
Credit Card
Debt
Greater
Impact
Poor
Corrupt
Card
Companies
Working
Facet
Mortgages
Working People
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When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.
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Chairman
Clearing
Former
Bear
Charges
Commission
Exchange
Sec
Securities
Settled
Smiles
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
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Financial
Fund
Good Reputation
Grain
Humdrum
Livelihood
Managers
Reputation
Good Business Man
Commodities
Dealers
Depend
Business Good Man
Placing
Prices
Reasonably
Trades
Whose
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There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you?
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Bucks
Charity
Fund
Lifestyle
Mediocre
Mutual
Mutual Fund
For Example
Hedge
Manager
Supporting
Who Am I
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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Betting
Crisis
Financial Crisis
Actions
Bank
Banks
Divert
Prices
Tends
The Problem With
Villains
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When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934.
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Banking
Financial Services
Steps
Bold
Commission
Led
Regulate
Securities
Services
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