Alex Berenson (born January 6, 1973) is a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of several thriller novels and a book on corporate financial filings. Read full biography of Alex Berenson →
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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... →
If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.
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For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to... →
Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage... →
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... →
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Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets tighten and wages rise, corporate profits can... →
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.