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...yuckster Gargan serious enough to attract voters and good candidates? Or will the Reformers fail to get at least 5% of the vote, thus losing their $12.6 million in matching funds for 2004, and go the way of the Bull Moose Party, which evaporated in 1916? In a party where one vice chairman candidate served beer out of his hotel bathtub, where its only Governor plans to referee this month's WWF SummerSlam wrestling match, concerns about being serious may miss the point. "Jesse rejects that notion. He's always said, 'If it isn't fun, I quit,'" says Ventura...
...tempting to write off this trend as a fad born of an economy that doesn't know when to quit, abetted by companies with more money than they know how to spend. But unusual offsites may be tapping into an economic shift that is more lasting than the bull market--the need for "soft" (interpersonal) skills in a quick-moving, unstructured service economy in which advantages are momentary and a slight shift in the business model can mean either big bucks or doom. "Because of all the complexity and chaos that we face in this era, we have to look...
...knows for sure how many people day trade. But the number is way up from a few years ago, when this bull market kicked into high gear and the Internet began making it easy and cheap to buy and sell stocks. Barton Biggs, an analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, confirms and bemoans the trend in biting missives to clients about his plumber, who is so busy trading he won't come to fix a leaking pipe. I've written about the guy behind the deli counter leafing through Barron's for that day's stock trade. It's epidemic...
...have quit their job to trade full time at day-trading firms is about 5,000--a relative pittance. But add in those who trade online at home or between meetings at the office, and you may have as many as 5 million. Technology makes it possible; the bull market makes it irresistible...
Currently coaching the Boston Bull-dogs, he will be the 11th coach in the history of Harvard men's soccer...