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...Joseph Grundfest, a Stanford Law School professor, attributes a recent drop in shareholder lawsuits to aggressive government enforcement following the Enron fraud. But others say Grundfest discounts more likely causes: a relatively steady stock market and the criminal investigation of the law firm that files most shareholder suits. And even if he's right, a strategy of criminal prosecution is still a bad idea...
...current stock-market trends cannot be entirely reversed. Some of the benefits that computerized trading confer on institutional investors vs. individual investors are permanent. One of those advantages is the ability to buy and sell entire portfolios of stock at once, rather than individual issues. Admits SEC Commissioner Joseph Grundfest: "One of the wonderful things about Wall Street has been that the small investor could lay the same bets as the big boys. Now you might need $9 million to play." He adds, "If you're not computer sophisticated, you're behind the eight ball. As a practical matter, small...
Most female students complain, too, that they still face discrimination. "Women are asked many more questions than men with comparable credentials," says Sandra Grundfest, assistant director of career services at Princeton. Even so, the College Placement Council predicts that businesses will hire 54% more women graduates this year than in 1973. That big an increase would give women 24% of all the jobs to be filled by graduating students this year...
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