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...from 1984 to 1999, not once did U.S. stocks place first among 11 major markets, including France, Germany, Singapore, the Netherlands, Britain, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, Switzerland and Canada. On a yearly basis, U.S. stocks finished in the bottom half more than half the time, according to Morgan Stanley Capital International. While U.S. stocks did well, you would have had less volatility and higher returns by owning foreign stocks...
Forget about black monoliths. If the late great Stanley Kubrick had known what was going to be really cool by the year 2001, his seminal movie would have opened with 25 million ape-descendants clustered silently round an awe-inspiring and somewhat unreal auction house. Then to the tune of the Blue Danube, some bizarrely diverse items would shoot weightlessly through the ether - sterling silver Jaguar cars, Sherlock Holmes first editions, Xerox networked printers, a pair of Madonna concert tickets, an ostrich-egg incubator - moving at a rate of 5 million purchases per day. The climactic scene, perhaps, would feature...
...befits the older-skewing VH1, aren't teen pop (several have a circa 1995 alterna-rock sound). But that may not be a bad thing. Despite the success of O-Town and Eden's Crush, that slickly packaged style of music has lately dipped on the charts. Stone and Stanley predict Popstars will be on the air in 10 years, creating bands of different genres to suit each season. But it's hard to imagine, say, a Grungestars, should there be a resurgence in music reliant on at least the appearance of independence...
...post-bubble witch hunt, two Internet analysts are getting most of the blame--Henry Blodget at Merrill Lynch and Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. They're natural targets. Both work at influential brokerage firms. Both reportedly made $15 million, give or take, as Internet stocks soared in 1999. And both now concede the obvious: they were too slow to downgrade dozens of stocks. Their bullishness in the face of impending disaster has riveted attention on the analyst's role across Wall Street. It's not a pretty picture...
...glaring are such conflicts of interest that Byron Wien, stock-market strategist at Morgan Stanley, took the system to task in his research report: "It is clear that the profession has some serious work to do to rebuild confidence," he wrote, urging analysts to be "intellectually honest and independent." My favorite criticism comes from the stock jocks on CNBC--the very same folks who made stars of bulls like Blodget and Meeker by putting them on the air day after day while the bubble was still bloating. These watchdogs now insist that analysts answer for their miscalls...