Word: weiss
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...regular investors--long advised to buy stocks, diversify and stay patient--are taking the beating. Anna Weiss, 67, of Houston embodies the anxiety now taking hold across the country. "I saved for 30 years. I have saved and saved and saved so that I could afford some of the nice things that I never allowed myself when I was young," says the retired retail manager. "Now I find because of other people's stupidity that the money I have saved has shrunk...
Maher does well not only to attack Christianity; he also digs his claws into Judaism and Islam. An interview with Rabbi Dovid Weiss, an anti-Zionist who supports the Iranian president’s recent denial of the Holocaust, reveals the darkest entrails of religious hypocrisy. While roaming the underground tunnels of Amsterdam, Maher interviews Muslim British rapper Aki Nawaz of the band Propagandhi, whose controversial lyrics glorify terrorism. Incidentally, Nawaz, whose livelihood literally depends on freedom of speech, has no qualms about the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie for his book “The Satanic Verses...
...past, he's made a fortune with similarly contrarian bets in devastated emerging markets, most memorably in Russia after it defaulted on its debt in 1998. At the time, says Weiss, the entire Russian stock market was valued at about half the price of the U.S. company Home Depot. Now, markets in countries like Russia, China, Vietnam, Brazil and India - all adored by investors until recently - have crashed. But Weiss still isn't ready to plunge in. "I don't think the emerging markets are cheap enough yet," he says. "I don't think people hate them enough...
...topsy-turvy world of investing, Weiss's lesson is worth remembering: when nobody is afraid, be fearful; when everybody is afraid, be bullish. The trouble this time, he warns, is that "things could get a lot cheaper. You have to be able to stick...
Yardfest Despite being one of the most bitched about events every year, Yardfest does well. According to the Harvard Concert Commission this is most definitely “the biggest event of the year,” says HCC president Elizabeth S. Weiss ’09. The real question is, however, how long does each of the 5,000 to 7,000 students who attend stick around after grabbing a soggy hotdog and wishing someone else were performing on stage...