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...book's 60 lyrics, but the Boss Cupid of the title is not the chubby winged cherub of popular lore. He is something of a hooligan, "devious master of our bodies," wreaker of joy and havoc: "Love makes the cuckoo heave its foster-siblings/Out of the nest, to spatter on the ground." Pleasure is the other side of loss. In "American Boy" Gunn writes, "Expertly you know how to maintain me/At the exact degree/of hunger without starving. We produce/ What warmth...
Margin calls. Panic. Busted nest eggs. Is this what Alan Greenspan had in mind when he began raising interest rates last June? Well, yes. To a degree anyway. And given discouraging news on inflation last Friday--the CPI has been rising at a 5.8% annual clip this year, the government reported--don't look for Greenspan to stop boosting rates soon. The ominous prospect of more rate increases, along with basic valuation questions, sent both the NASDAQ and the Dow average on another wild ride...
...long run, high risk usually means high reward, and the techs could climb anew. But the long run can be long indeed, and if you hold only a few stocks, there are no guarantees. You could be wiped out. Even if you own a basket of tech stocks, your nest egg could drop 50% or more in the time it takes to order that new BMW. Spreading investments across asset classes reduces such risk and looks dumb only to the tech cultists...
...hype. "Our job is partly to be the evangelist for start-ups," says Kenny. "We have to get the message out." In return, Incubasia gets an equity stake in each company, usually between 33% and 50%. Armed with business and technological know-how, clients are expected to leave the nest and set up on their own within a year...
...geese come to this small patch of land near a busy four-way intersection by the Boston University bridge every spring to nest...