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The echo carried that far and beyond. Drexel's notorious junk bonds -- debt instruments that pay high rates of interest because of the relative shakiness of the ventures they fund -- turned the financial world topsy-turvy and helped set the tone for the money lust that gripped America in the...
California is a country-size economy by itself, accounting for some 14% of America's total GNP. The main threat to the state's prosperity comes from looming defense cuts, which would have a sizable impact on Southern California's aerospace industry. Economists predict that unemployment in California will rise...
In the topsy-turvy U.S. economy, it depends where you live. The Northeast is slumping; the Southwest is resurgent. -- Navy agents crack a bid-rigging scheme.
Wilder's wafer-thin win should have been all the more satisfying, for it underlines the extent of the racial barriers that he has surmounted. But in the topsy-turvy world of political analysis, this Virginia victory was measured against the unrealistically optimistic expectations raised by the pre-election surveys...
Our current tax system discriminates against capital gains in one way: it ignores inflation. If a stock has doubled during a time when the general price level has also doubled, the real profit is zero, but you'll pay a capital- gains tax anyway when you sell. Of course, the...