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...statistics seem to support this bleak view. In 2001, 12 of the 20 biggest-dollar initial public offerings (IPOs) occurred in the U.S. In each of 2005 and 2006, only one did. IPOs totaled $55.2 billion in Britain last year and only $46.6 billion here. Since 2000, the number of foreign companies listed on NASDAQ fell...
Thanks in part to this reputation for clean dealing, foreign firms can get as much as 37% more for their stock on U.S. markets than they can elsewhere, including on the London Stock Exchange, according to an article co-authored by Karolyi. That's a big reason why, per dollar raised, U.S. stock offerings are the cheapest in the world...
...painter, you might just auction off something for half a million at Sotheby’s or Christie’s. Making it big as a poet means you might sell about 50,000 copies. “And let’s assume the writer makes a dollar a book,” adds Emily K. Vasiliauskas ’07, a poet and one of two Harvard 2007 Marshall Scholarship recipients. Clearly, the audience for poetry isn’t what it used to be.Yet, despite apathy and lack of appreciation of serious poetry among the general populace...
...apartheid-era South Africa, "terror-free investing" is designed to isolate countries on the U.S. terrorism list like Iran, Sudan and North Korea by purging U.S. pension funds of the stock of any company that might do business with such regimes. The state of Missouri has gotten its multibillion-dollar Missouri State Employees Retirement System screened to remove what it regards as terror-related investments, with counsel from State Street Global Advisors as well as the Washington, D.C.-based Conflict Securities Advisory Group. The Louisiana sheriffs public pension fund has adopted a similar approach, with advice from T. Rowe Price...
...money is not what schools need from the federal government. Over the past 40 years, we as a nation have increased per pupil spending by two and one half times—in real dollar terms. Yet student performance has hardly budged over that period of time. Even our best students—the top tenth—do not perform any better today than their parents and grandparents did forty-odd years ago. Meanwhile, high school graduation rates are lower today than they were...