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...anyway. Sure, the indexes are bloated. Anybody can see that. But don't blame the index funds. It's part of a mania that has bloated the entire market. There's good reason to be worried about a steep correction that would hit all stocks. So stick your money in a mattress if you're worried. But if you are committed to owning stocks for the long haul, indexing still makes sense. For one thing, there is scant evidence that major indexes fall harder than most stock funds. In 1987, the year of the crash...
...mania has now produced a spate of books--catnip for the nostalgia connoisseur and the mogul hoping to extend his franchise line and move the vintage-cartoon cassettes off the video-store shelves. Warner Books has published Chuck Reducks, the second (after Chuck Amuck) memoir of Warner Bros.' cartoon glory years by its major double-domo, Chuck Jones. Turner Publishing, literary outlet for the owner of mgm cartoons, honors animation's wildest spirit with John Canemaker's handsome Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-55. It is essentially a reprint of Pierre Lambert's original, one of four French books...
...more than 2% a decade ago. That's partly explained by a combination of tax-law changes, today's soaring profits and a shift to product donations in lieu of cash. Still, it's the kind of thing that makes traditional nonprofits sweat. And the latest bout of merger mania makes them even more uncomfortable. When two big companies--each with its own foundation--become one, only one foundation is likely to survive...
...People's Tragedy (Viking; 923 pages; $39.95), by Orlando Figes, a historian at Trinity College, Cambridge, deals vividly with starvation, disease, tribal hatreds, sociopathic blood lust, religious mania, governmental terrorism and most other sources of human misery. But the author's predominant diagnosis of what went wrong, on all sides and without letup, is that stupidity ruled--quite literally in the case of the last Czar, Nicholas II (who comes across here as dull-minded and weak), and his wife Alexandra (dull-minded and forceful). At a time when Russia might have been transformed by shrewd and humane reforms into...
Although Silverman was educated as a lawyer, he gravitated to the more treacherous world of dealmaking, cutting his teeth with Wall Street's Blackstone Group in the merger mania of the 1980s. There he was involved in dozens of corporate deals. But don't look for his name in the headlines: he shies away from New York City's mogul madness. As one of his staff says, "He is not part of the scene. You will never see him on Page Six [the New York Post gossip page]. He is focused on business...