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...breaking into a neighbor’s house and stealing several boxes of cookies while the family was sleeping soundly upstairs. Says Joel S. Jacobs ’04, “Larceny is all about getting in your zone: I pretended the cookies were a loosely monitored state pension fund and I was its manager.” “I wasn’t nearly as ambitious,” says Mack D. Hartfield ’05, “I just imagined the cookies were my half-brother’s trust fund...
...True Value. She doesn't expect you to read all 300 pages of a company's financial statement or try to comprehend complex derivatives. The most crucial section is the footnotes, where many companies bury bad news. An attentive reader can spot the red flags: inflated growth assumptions for pension assets, a subsidiary controlled by a son-in-law, lots of synthetic leases. Then get your money out. Compare the most recent reports to those of past years, and skim for the new material--if more investors had noticed Enron's infamous Footnote 16 from its 1999 10-K, which...
...dozen unproven biotech firms. Money-losing companies like Anchor Glass and Red Envelope have already slipped through the IPO window. Yet even these outfits are a cut above the dogs of the '90s. The biotechs are nearing approval for new treatments. Anchor, which makes bottles for Snapple, shed pension and health-care costs in bankruptcy court. Red Envelope is an online gift store that should be profitable next quarter, says Linda Killian, a partner at the IPO research firm Renaissance Capital...
...ringing alarm bells in Brussels as Poland prepares to join the E.U. next year, and the euro zone, possibly, in 2007. Leszek Miller's government is backing a tough new austerity package, cutting spending by €6.9 billion within four years. Among other things it will overhaul the pension system (Poland is the biggest disability-pensions payer in Europe) and increase social-security rates for wealthier Poles. But with public confidence in the Prime Minister currently at 25%, down from 63% in October 2001 when he took office, Miller faces a tough selling job. - By Tadeusz L. Kucharski and Andrew...
...leader Iain Duncan Smith has been gaining scant ground on Prime Minister Tony Blair - even though Blair's popularity has plummeted since the war in Iraq. In France, the Socialists have been confused and silent, even as Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin weathered a summer of union discontent over pension and unemployment reforms. Only in Germany is the opposition enjoying any success, but even there the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), are seen as the lesser of evils. Why can't opposition parties get any traction? Call it the revenge...