Word: research
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speculative bubble burst, in 1987. And it's still growing, almost exponentially, rising faster than credit-card or mortgage debt. "We've had an expansion of margin debt the likes of which haven't been seen since the 1920s," says Tom Schlesinger, executive director of Financial Markets Center, a research institute...
...yourself investors and full-time day traders couldn't have less in common. One group researches stocks, tries to get comfortable with the products and the financials, and then buys and holds. The other does little research, never wants to be comfortable with the stocks, and buys and sells the stocks over and over again. Yet the media can't tell them apart. As the New York Times stated so ineloquently in its umpteenth article lumping together these diametrically opposed camps, they are both part of the "do-it-yourself craze" that is causing people to lose millions and millions...
...media do a disservice to those who devote time and energy enough to research and pick stocks themselves to castigate them as gamblers. These are precisely the people who have racked up the best returns in this bull market. And we lend too much of a veneer of professionalism to those who would gamble away life savings on random, short-term moves. Let's stop confusing these two contingents before we scare those who have the confidence and skills to be their own adviser and embolden those who should know better than to bet instead of invest...
Some criminologists, including Alfred Blumstein, director of the National Consortium on Violence Research, say Donohue and Levitt don't adequately factor in other variables, including the strong economy and crime-prevention measures. But if their research is proved correct, the duo say, crime stats should slide further over the next 20 years...
...with the secondhand noise attack. We'll cook up some medical research that "proves" we're at risk. Then we'll find a cell-phoneless lobbyist, should one exist, generate some sympathetic press and maybe get a website ihatecellphones.com is still available). Next we launch a campaign for designated no-cell-phone areas in public places. That's right, put all the cell shouters at tables in the back of the restaurant, near the bathroom or kitchen, where they can sit alone and chatter, gesturing wildly, as if the party to whom they are speaking could see them. Later, after...