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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the difference is that more of the no-load investor's dollar is actually used to buy stock because no sales commission is lopped off when a buy order is placed. No-loads may also perform well because many are small and must thus concentrate their investments in relatively few stocks, which can be advantageous if those issues are the big gainers. Sometimes the managers of the no-loads are freer to concentrate on picking the right stocks. Managers of loaded funds often have to spend much of their time simply planning sales strategy...
...dodge taxes by converting, often through gimmicks like buying non-productive farms, part of their earnings to "capital gains." The law also chips away at incentives to make more conventional investments. Says George A. Kuhnreich, vice president of Ungerleider, Haidas & Co., a brokerage firm that services many wealthy investors: "It eliminates a good part of the rewards that used to be given to the long-term investor. It will mean greater liquidity-take the money...
...African Liberation Committee has recently published a report that describes in detail the relationship between Harvard University and the oppression of Black People in Southern Africa. Specifically the report explains that Gulf Oil Company as the largest American investor in the Portuguese colonies, is aiding the Portuguese war machine by supplying oil to that government from wells in the colonized African territory of Angola. In addition, for the right to operate these oil wells. Gulf pays enormous rents and royalties to the Portuguese. This arrangement enables Portugal to continue to resist the efforts of the black liberation armies...
Most significant for the individual investor is a recommendation that all the national and regional U.S. exchanges be tied together electronically to form, in effect, a single central market. At present, the same stock may be traded on exchanges in New York, Boston, San Francisco and Chicago, and each exchange will publish information on its prices and trading volume on a separate tape that mostly goes to brokerage houses in the immediate area. As a rule, an investor buying or selling stock in New York, say, will see only what is happening to that stock on the New York exchange...
...Exception and the Rule is as concise and bitter as any of his sermons can be, Karl Langmann, investor-speculator-merchant, sets out across the Jahi desert with a load of unidentified but valuable goods, accompanied by a guide, a coolie, and a riding crop. His competitors are always right behind him; in trying to keep ahead he overworks both his men, eventually fires (unjustly) his guide, and shoots (intentionally) his coolie. Langmann's philosophy, we are told repeatedly, is "sick men die, but strong men fight." Langmann's world is one made for fighters, one where "who has good...