Alex Berenson
Alex Berenson
Alex Berensonis a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of several thriller novels and a book on corporate financial filings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth6 January 1973
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.
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The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.
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Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.
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Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.
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For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
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For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
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For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.
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HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.
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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.
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Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced.
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Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
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Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
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Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.