Word: walls
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...since Bill Gates took Microsoft public in 1986 has Wall Street witnessed anything like the wealth-creating power of today's Internet stocks. Consider Amazon.com an online bookseller that has lost more than $30 million since 1995 with nary a penny of profit in sight. No matter. Amazon's $5 billion in market value exceeds the combined capitalization of Barnes & Noble and Borders Group, the two largest U.S. bookstore chains. The rise of No. 1 search engine Yahoo has been no less phenomenal. It stood at $181 a share last week after reporting second-quarter earnings of $8.1 million--following...
...ever been an example of a mania, this is it," says Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer of the First Albany brokerage firm. "There's a pretty exciting future for companies on the Internet. But these stock prices are irrational." Not that rationality has ever counted for much on Wall Street, which prefers hopes, dreams and whispers when it looks ahead. As venture capitalist J. Neil Weintraut puts it, "There is no reasonable way to value these companies." Still, professional analysts have to try. And few want to buck the trend: last week Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette analysts raised their price target...
While you've been packing the RV for that cross-country drive with the in-laws, the world's power elite has been jetting off to more exclusive sleepovers. Last week Hollywood and Wall Street names trekked to Idaho for the Allen & Co. conference, one of a handful of camps at which ambition burns hotter than any campfire. Our guide...
...have watched crowds of black men and women lunge at the suspected killers, enveloping them and oozing onto the surrounding streets like volcanic lava. I have seen the sheer power of their hatred stop eight lanes of traffic and shatter bus windows. I have witnessed walls of white police officers dressed in riot gear equipped with tear gas, dogs and clubs and yet powered by much more. And I have stood between the two, helpless before the baying masses, but rigidly constrained by the iron wall of police...
...still want him to save the President, but I don?t want to meet him until afterward. Lift the curtain and the wizard grows smaller. Lift the mirrored sunglasses and yank out the earpiece, and the Secret Service man loses his invincibility. He is no longer a wall between peril and the President, he?s a guy in a gray suit with a lousy home life. And that makes me nervous...