Word: investments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pension funds as the biggest institutional shareholders. Though brokers derive some income from selling mutual fund shares, the funds nevertheless represent a threat not only to brokerage houses but also to savings banks and savings and loan associations. All are competing for the dollars that Americans have to invest or save. The institutions are taking an increasing share of the portion that goes into common stocks: they now own 35% of the shares on the New York Stock Exchange and account for 60% of the dollar volume of the exchange's public trading, up from 40% a decade ago. Late...
...Invest in Vietnam...
...system itself. The Fed also removed the ceilings on interest that banks can pay on short-term certificates of deposit. These rates then jumped from about 61% to 8%, which is just about the going level for commercial paper. The rise should encourage treasurers of cash-rich companies to invest in bank certificates of deposit rather than lOUs. That sort of simmering down of the commercial-paper market could only be beneficial, for corporate borrowing practices should hardly be reminiscent of a permanent floating crap game...
...expansion would be spread widely among the new shareholders. To be sure, if Kelso's plan were widely adopted, the stock market might lose its lure as a casino. Reason: investors would have much less incentive to gamble on rising stock prices and much more inducement to invest for steady income. Kelso expects that his plan would smooth the gyrations of stock prices. Even in a bear market, he argues, the public's appetite for new shares would hardly diminish because investors would not be risking their own savings to acquire stock. And he figures that people...
...needing something to relate to, they are forced to find what life they can in the cement, glass and steel. They lavish eight hours a day, a quarter of their life, on those structures, forcing part of themselves into the buildings. But the part of their personalities they invest in the buildings, and the part they pull out for sheer companionship, begin to stare back at them through every window. If you hate what you create, then you hate yourself, but trying to love the skyscrapers of New York must be like kissing a rock. So unlike Pygmalion, the construction...