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...invest in this growth industry? The conservative plays are through big retailers and drug companies. Wal-Mart and Walgreens, for example, sell a lot of natural products. Among drug companies, American Home Products, Warner Lambert and Bayer AG have been aggressive. But the overall sales of these large companies overwhelm those of their natural products, so the impact is minimal. Take Wal-Mart: it sold about $500 million of natural products last year, but that pales next to total sales of $105 billion...
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...promised to cut the national defense budget 14 percent and re-invest the money in schools...
...would you like to get the Federal Government to invest with you in a hot new business in the global market? Say a company that manufactures cotton and coffee in Argentina? Or a company that manufactures vans for the local jitney service in South Africa? Or a soft-drink company in Russia? For every buck you put up, the government, in the form of something called the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), puts up two bucks. Best of all, if the deal goes sour because of a crumbling economy, currency devaluation or some other unforeseen event, you won't have...
Everyone from Peter Lynch to your barber will tell you that before you invest in a company's stock, you should make sure it has great management. The best managers are agile enough to steer through trouble and exploit new opportunities. That's how Jack Welch at General Electric became a star and why GE perpetually trades at a higher multiple of earnings than the average stock. Welch is proven. You can buy his stock and throw it in a drawer. Ditto Charles Knight at Emerson Electric and Lawrence Bossidy at AlliedSignal...