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...existing assets and past earnings. Only after determining a stock's value today would Graham entertain guesstimates of what it might earn tomorrow. Anchoring his analysis in reality gave Graham what he called "the margin of safety." As he wrote in his classic The Intelligent Investor, "Operations for profit should be based not on optimism but on arithmetic...
...hard to knock Middelhoff for his record at Bertelsmann. He convinced the company to buy a stake in the Internet service provider American Online when it was still a fledgling company. Later, he arranged to sell the stake back to AOL for a $7 billion profit. The deal helped land Middelhoff the CEO job in 1998. He profitably sold off a stake in the German pay-TV service Premiere World long before the company, owned by media tycoon Leo Kirch, went bust. Middelhoff also persuaded Bertlesmann to buy the giant U.S. publisher Random House for $1.2 billion. His contract, reportedly...
Similar public hearings are occurring in other towns in the Boston area. Clean Air Works, the regional movement to ban smoking in area restaurants, is a coalition of local boards of health, non-profit health organizations, labor unions and workers...
...this is just one company. Extremophiles have already rewritten biology textbooks; they may soon be rewriting profit statements as well...
...provincial border. An Australian lawyer in Shanghai says she discarded her copy of the Chinese legal code when it became clear local party officials were ignoring national regulations. "No one seems to pay much attention to laws," she says, "unless they can figure out a way to make a profit from them...