Word: mania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Girsky thinks the company needs to junk 27 models to eliminate redundancy and stop competing with itself. Take the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird. In their heyday, the sporty siblings divided up a broad and profitable market of muscle-car enthusiasts. These days, though, muscle mania has waned, and the pair is left slugging it out in a narrowing segment. GM execs may want to keep at least one of the offerings to compete with the popular Ford Mustang, but they are faced with a dilemma: both cars are built in the same plant in Quebec, and killing one would...
...really? Or are frenzied investors merely cruising for a bruising fall? "If there's ever been an example of a mania, this is it," says Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer of the First Albany brokerage firm. "There's a pretty exciting future for companies on the Internet. But these stock prices are irrational." Not that rationality has ever counted for much on Wall Street, which prefers hopes, dreams and whispers when it looks ahead. As venture capitalist J. Neil Weintraut puts it, "There is no reasonable way to value these companies." Still, professional analysts have to try. And few want...
Radio and then television dented the town-band mania starting in the 1930s, but the musical virus had already taken hold in U.S. public schools, and there it still rages, from grade school to college. Frederick Fennell, 85, former director of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, who is regarded by many as the dean of band directors, estimates that there are up to 50,000 school bands in the U.S.--a number that would challenge the nation's athletic teams. And still at the head of the parade marches the Marine Band...
...Yahoo's earnings prove it's the strongest company in the group, says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. Will it turn out to be the next Microsoft? "That's a crazy bet to make and yet everybody's making it," Kadlec says. "Yahoo is riding a mania for Internet stocks, just like the mania for biotech in 1991. These stocks have so much room to collapse." Indeed, in announcing only a 2-for-1 split Wednesday (effective in August), Yahoo might be signaling that it knows some bearish days are coming. Notes Kadlec: "A $200 stock price means Yahoo...
...first reaction was: what was he thinking? Just as Viagra mania was receding, along comes Ace Greenberg, the chairman of Bear, Stearns & Co., donating $1 million to give the drug to patients unable to afford...