Word: reade
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...kinds of stocks and other investments that make the most sense. When interest rates are rising, the last thing you want to own is banks and brokerages, whose cost of money goes up and whose lending and other businesses tend to slow. You also want to avoid highly speculative (read Internet) companies with little or no earnings. Even steady growth stocks like food and beverages tend to lag as their earnings cheapen in an inflationary climate. Fixed-income investors should avoid longer-term securities because prices fall as rates rise, and if you have to sell before a bond matures...
...travails of installing the free operating system Linux. Since then, I've got e-mail daily from folks who want to know how it's going; in their way, Linux's adherents are as evangelical as any member of the orthodox Macintosh religion. Others--who, I guess, didn't read between my lines--wanted to know if they should use Linux instead of Windows or the Mac's operating system. That second question is far easier to answer than the first: for most of the laypeople who read this column, if you have to ask, don't install Linux...
...read Josh's past columns at timedigital.com Questions for Quittner? You can e-mail him at jquit@well.com
...tell people where I am from and have them ask if Cambodia is in Africa. I know what the Cambodian people have suffered and what they will continue to suffer, in Cambodia and even here in the U.S. and wherever else Cambodian refugees have relocated. I hope people will read your article and will want to learn more about how Cambodia is still being pressured by the U.S. and other countries. Cambodia is one of the forgotten countries with a long, hard past and a long, hard future. I am an American, an American who still remembers that...
...know a number of people in their 20s and 30s who are not multimillionaires. I know people that age who have no stock options whatsoever. Some of them, in fact, have no stock. Given all we read about 28-year-old Internet executives whose holdings were cut by recent stock dips to only about $40 million, or investment bankers who now feel they have a nest egg large enough to allow them to ease into retirement at 27, or 30-year-old writers who wandered onto the staff of the right sitcom while waiting for the first novel to jell...