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...that criticism, the package also includes a rise in child and married-couples tax allowances. In addition, tax-rate cuts scheduled for 2004 and 2006 would be introduced immediately. "Our first challenge is to allow Americans to keep more of their money so they can spend and save and invest," Bush said. The President's program, if Congress passes it unchanged, would cost the Treasury $364 billion over the next 10 years in lost taxes on dividends alone. The cost of the cuts as a whole would be $674 billion - more than twice what Bush's allies had expected. Although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 1/12/2003 | See Source »

...Lizza points out that Bush "is embracing the idea that the stock market is the most important economic indicator in the United States." But Lizza skips by the irony behind the embrace. When Bush took office, he was so disdainful of investment bankers and the financial markets that he rejected the suggestion that he include a Wall Street savant, similar to Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, on his economic team. Instead he made Alcoa CEO Paul O'Neill, who shared Bush's negative views of Wall Street, his secretary of the Treasury. As his national economic adviser Bush chose Larry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commentary: In Stocks He Trusts | 1/11/2003 | See Source »

...chance. Most people drive the same kind of car, have the same kind of yard behind the same kind of weatherboard house. The houses are spread equally across the expanse, not clustered in some pecking order around a town center. The status symbol is not to have one, to invest in public life, to treat everyone like the fellow next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coleen Rowley: The Special Agent | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

WATKINS: It's disheartening to see that the FBI has as many problems as corporate America. In this country, we have a vacuum in leadership. We value the wrong people. Warren Buffett is boring, and he doesn't give too many interviews, but he didn't invest in tech stocks because he didn't understand how they made money. He was right. But we value splashy leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Cynthia Cooper, Sherron Watkins, Coleen Rowley | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...spread ever gets, and it means that investors today are promised a superior return with fully taxable preferreds. Among the best values out there, Merrill says, are the fully taxable preferreds of Comerica (yielding 7.44%), Torchmark (7.58%) and Virginia Electric & Power (7.26%). A handful of closed-end mutual funds invest in fully taxable preferreds, including the John Hancock preferred-income fund and three Quality Preferred Income funds launched this year by Nuveen Investments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing for Yield? | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

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