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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For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.
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Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.
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The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
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Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.
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Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
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Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
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In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
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Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.
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For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.
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Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.
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Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.
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Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.
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Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?
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Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.