Word: investments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Potential for conflict of interest, including the misuse of inside information, is considerable, the report claims. "Some institutional investors make loans to companies in which they invest, or provide insurance coverage. Their representatives often sit on the companies' boards. Sometimes institutional investors help facilitate or block mergers...
...begin instead by considering why you should spend $29.95 (plus tax, unless you can convince the Harvard Bookstore you're using it for a course) on this overgrown puppy of a book. Why shouldn't you invest your hard-earned money in, say, a five-month subscription to the Fruit-of-the-Month Club...
...while U.S. corporations invest more money to bolster apartheid in South Africa than is invested in all other African countries south of the Sahara combined, the investment-hungry, market-poor black countries can only resent the pattern; they are hardly in a position to reverse it or entice a higher level of investment for themselves...
Although businessmen claim that multinational corporations contribute capital to developing countries, statistics show that the bulk of capital used by U.S. investors is not imported from the United States but borrowed locally or reinvested from the company's earnings. In the 1960s, U.S. companies exported $2.4 billion to invest in Latin America and brought in to the United States $10.2 billion in income, not including fees for management and royalties, which would raise the figure higher...
...Allende became president in 1970, he inherited a stagnating Chilean economy, heavily dependent on U.S. loans. Chile had begun a system of industrialization in the 1940s which encouraged self-sufficiency in consumer goods and ignored the export and agricultural sectors. The Chilean upper class did not make a sufficient investment in research and development to build industry for export, but preferred to rely on an easy internal market, protected by tariffs and an overvalued currency. The copper exports also failed to increase because U.S. companies used their profits from Chilean mines to invest elsewhere...