Word: broker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seductive lead-in for this juicy collection of true tales. Bronson profiles the inventor who finances his idea by growing pot, the programmer who blows off a major project for a squirrel-hunting trip, the project manager who fantasizes about murdering a co-worker. Even the used-cubicle broker has his charms. As in his fictional satires, Bombardiers and The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, this clever storyteller keeps you laughing as you breeze from one episode to the next...
...Procurement from Acme Chemicals wants to score a thousand pounds of polypropylene. In the old days, he'd have his broker pals ring up suppliers around the world until they found the best deal. Calls: 30 or 40, many international. Transaction time: one week. Cost: hundreds or thousands of dollars...
...much more important for you to understand. So much of the do-it-yourself financial revolution that has gripped this country is incredibly positive. The combination of cheap commissions and readily available information has empowered individuals to take better care of their finances, in many cases, than a broker or adviser ever could...
RATE-A-TRADE In online trading, speed is of the essence. The time it takes to get a stock can mean the difference between making a killing and getting killed. Now a new Web broker index at keynote.com tracks how long it takes to place buy orders. Industry leader E*Trade isn't faring too well, but it disputes the measuring tools and notes that it has scored well in other rankings. Still, E*Trade vows to improve...
Talk about taking the money and running. When firefighters showed up at Martin Frankel?s maximum-security Connecticut mansion on May 5, they found a blazing file cabinet and two fireplaces stuffed with burning documents ?- and no Frankel. The unlicensed broker had lit out of town with anywhere from $218 million to $915 million in his clients? money, most of it from small insurance firms from Oklahoma to Arkansas. Short-Term Capital Management? Try insurance fraud ?- and now the New York Daily News reports that six weeks later, authorities have finally come to the same conclusion and issued a warrant...