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 →
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel... →
Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for... →
Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations... →
Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the... →
Financial news services and other media organizations get press releases 15 minutes before they are distributed to the general public, fueling a... →
In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets... →
Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of... →
Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before... →
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... →
Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green... →
Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive alternative... →
Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, an examination of overall supply and demand. At the broadest level, macroeconomists want to... →
Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them... →