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Alex Berenson is an American author and former journalist. He has written several thrillers and non-fiction books, with his works often exploring topics related to espionage, intelligence agencies, and contemporary issues. Berenson's books have gained recognition for their suspenseful plots and in-depth research. He has received awards for his writing and continues to be a prominent figure in the thriller genre.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors ... -Alex Berenson

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

Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual sales of manufactured homes more than doubled, to 374,000 from 174,000.

Benefits are rarely made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where companies must report the pay and options that their five highest-paid executives receive.

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?

Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.'

Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.

John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.

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

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

Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.

From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.

Predicting the market is always tough.... -Alex Berenson

Predicting the market is always tough.

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

I think when you have lawyers arguing over whether you can keep a detainee at 46 degrees... for two hours, that's not torture. It may be unpleasant, it may be coercive... but let's say what torture actually is, and that's not it.

Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.

Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.

It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising interest rates when the economy is growing too fast and inflation threatens.

Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.

Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of ... -Alex Berenson

Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.

African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options.

Electronic communications networks match trades between investors directly, without using a market maker or specialist as an intermediary.

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

Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it has heavy trading volume and breadth, meaning that several stocks rise for each stock that falls.

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