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...paying for the wrong war. Military budgets are always full of riddles and mysteries, but never has the Pentagon appeared so at war with itself. It is fighting a new kind of war in remarkably new ways, yet at the same time it is asking the nation to invest heavily in weapons that were created to fight old wars in old ways...
When Fastow and Skilling went back to CalPERS in 1997 with jedi ii, the natural gas projects had been replaced by unspecified energy projects. CalPERS pulled out of jedi ii in October 2000 to invest in something simpler and more transparent, and Fastow scrambled to set up an entity to take its place. Known as Chewco, it was a partnership controlled by Enron employees, including Kopper. According to the Powers report, Chewco and similar partnerships were engaged in shuffling assets to cover losses and create illusory profits. As a result, Enron overstated earnings by $1 billion from the third quarter...
...just not true," says Robert Arnott, who manages $15 billion for institutional investors at First Quadrant L.P. in Pasadena, Calif. "The more money that companies retain to invest in the future, the worse their future turns out to be." Consider that Priceline wrote off $67 million in 2000, partly from its goofy venture into groceries and gasoline, while Amazon incinerated $233 million by "investing" in dotbombs like Webvan and Ashford.com Last year, jds Uniphase booked the biggest loss ever recorded--$56 billion--as it wrote off the costs of its overpriced acquisitions...
...expect stocks to be sluggish for a while, so now is an especially good time to incorporate dividends into your portfolio. Three solid mutual funds that specialize in cash-paying stocks are Fidelity Dividend Growth, T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and (if you invest through a broker) Capital Income Builder from the American Funds group. You might also send a message to billg@microsoft.com Show me the money, Bill...
...American ruler of a globe-spanning media empire, offered himself as a savior, Schröder sent out the signal: "No foreigners!" The word was spread that the Chancellor preferred a "national solution" - as he did in the case of John Malone, an American whose Liberty Media wanted to invest big time in the German cable industry but was frozen out on the argument that Liberty would gain too much market power...