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...eaten by bears in prime time, I wish they would focus on coming up with something that would really last." TV does seem to be in overkill mode, as the networks have signed up dozens of dating shows, talent searches and other voyeurfests. And like an overheated NASDAQ, the reality market is bound to correct. But unlike earlier TV reality booms, this one is supported by a large, young audience that grew up on MTV's The Real World and considers reality as legitimate as dramas and sitcoms--and that, for now, prefers...
...will include demands and risks that many candidates among the ranks of traditional recruits--current and retired top executives, say--aren't willing to accept. Congress, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ all answered calls for reform last year with their respective rule changes. The most substantial changes involve audit committees and outside directors (those without significant financial or family relationships to a company). To help avoid an Enron-like scenario, in which an audit committee doesn't adequately vet auditors' reports, the chairman of that committee must be a financial expert: either a CFO of a public company...
...Stocks And Glass Houses First it was Donald Rumsfeld attacking "old Europe." Now Alfred Berkeley, vice chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, says that Europeans seek "to pull us down to their own miserable levels of opportunity and performance." He cast this hostile stone in a letter last week to the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board, lobbying against a proposal from the International Accounting Standards Board that would count stock options as expenses. As corporate scandals mounted last year, the idea got high-profile support from investors like Warren Buffett. But Berkeley's attack - he also slams accountants, "the shareholder...
...growing, albeit fitfully, and its underlying fundamentals remain sound. What does need stimulating -- and this is where political advisers like Karl Rove come in -- is the public's perception of the economy's health. And that is tied directly to the markets. "People look at the Dow and the Nasdaq and they feel queasy about the economy," a White House official told me the other day. "They look at their retirement portfolios and they want to throw...
...BUBBLE Yes, it has burst, as anyone who pays attention to the NASDAQ knows. Now we're obsessed with bubbles: Are housing prices...