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The protest, which drew about 350 people, was organized by the newly formed Harvard-MIT Divestment Campaign, a group of Harvard and MIT faculty and students who are petitioning for the two institutions to stop investing money in companies that benefit from or support the Israeli military.
“All of us are so inspired and excited about by the announcement of this company investing here in the Kendall Square area,” Kennedy said. “You are very welcome to Cambridge, Massachusetts and Boston.”
And, he adds, it's "irresponsible" to conclude that "the more profitable that stock investing has been in the past, the more profitable it must be in the future." Instead Dimson expects U.S. stocks to return a tepid 6% annually (after inflation, which is running at about 1%). That would...
As an investing strategy, buy and hold has never been more suspect. Giant companies now collapse in scandal, like Enron; fall woefully behind in technology, like Polaroid; succumb to litigation, like Halliburton (asbestos); or get whacked by overpriced deals, like AOL. Are there still stocks that you can throw in...
President Bush's Middle East agenda requires that he get Ariel Sharon talking, when they meet today, about moving into fast-track negotiations over creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Sharon's agenda is plainly quite different: He wants to talk about Yasser Arafat's links...