Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl. Even more serious than the trade deficit is the $47.2 billion all-time high in the current account deficit -- the indicator of the amount America has to borrow from overseas. Baumohl warns that the record current account deficit represents a serious threat to the long-term health of the dollar...
When I buy call or put options, I'm not investing in a company; I'm trading pieces of paper in search of short-term profits. Here the fundamentals of the underlying business are usually less important than my read of how other investors are going to respond to new developments. There's no religious faith involved. I'm dispassionate about my stock trades...
...rich people (minimum net worth: $5 million). You get paid a percentage of the gains and make nothing if the fund loses money. The risks are large, but if you're good, so are the rewards. You've just imagined my job. I'm a hedge-fund manager, a term that conjures up swashbuckling billionaires like George Soros, whose trades can drive down entire foreign economies. I'm a much smaller fish: my partner and I manage about $360 million, investing almost all of it in U.S. stocks. But like the big boys, we get to engage...
These days, more people are trading options in their spare time, and for them I have this advice: If you want to compete against me and other pros in short-term trading, quit your day job and really get in the game. Otherwise, focus on researching long-term investments. Track strong businesses that you've researched, and wait for their stocks to be oversold by traders overreacting to some short-term setback. I saw two good examples just last week: Eli Lilly and Xerox. (Full disclosure: I'm long on both stocks.) Here you can beat me and the market...
...homogenous culture evaporated, everything got niched out. Blacks watch sitcoms whites don't watch. Most parents have stopped trying to pretend they understand the songs their kids love. There are no "standards," in either sense of the term: no more songs that teens and grandmas simultaneously hum, no more starched codes of behavior...