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MUHLENKAMP: I am an investor but also an employer. If I'm making money, there are two good reasons I hire: to make more money and to save time. Companies have been cautious, but the patterns are familiar. Jobs will be back...
Although the scorecard on the 2003 earnings season is nearly full, investors should be careful about jumping into a stock--or dumping it--solely on the basis of a hit or miss in the last quarter. Certainly, investor confidence has been buoyed by a resurgence in profits. Corporate earnings shot up about 28% in the fourth quarter of 2003 and climbed 18% for the entire year, according to Thomson First Call...
When Bush was failing as an investor, Daddy rescued his sagging share in Harken with a windfall contract for oil drilling in Bahrain, despite Harken’s dismal history and lack of off-shore experience. The Bush pedigree bought Dubya his stake in Texas politics, even though his recklessness, not to mention his dope-dimmed mind, would have denied it to anyone else. Then, as governor, he exploited the University of Texas’s state-funded endowment to funnel investment money to his cronies...
...main objective of any investor who’s in there for the long term is to get maximum return with as little risk as possible,” Scudder said. “The way the Harvard endowment has been run, that has been its achievement...
...animation business have made him a target. Eisner's micromanaging style, imperious mien and inability to groom a successor--all perfectly acceptable when you're coining money--are now liabilities. Chief dissident Roy Disney, the founder's nephew, has called for his head, and Institutional Shareholders Services, an influential investor-advisory group, has recommended that its clients withhold their vote for Eisner at the company's annual shareholders' meeting next month...