by Don Luskin | May 11, 2001 | POLITICS
A week ago I wrote here that the NASDAQ’s highs of Wednesday, May 2, marked the closing bookend of the NASDAQ’s fabulous bull run that carried it 35.6% from the bottom on April 4. So far I’ve been right. From May 2 through yesterday’s close,...
by Alan Luber | May 11, 2001 | POLITICS
Author’s Note: This is the first in a series of personal finance columns on the subject of being the executor of an estate. These columns are based on my own personal experiences in this regard. Individuals should consult a professional advisor and take their...
by Don Luskin | May 10, 2001 | POLITICS
Once again we’re faced with a market that doesn’t want to go up, but doesn’t want to go down either. Since last Wednesday’s high on the NASDAQ — which I said was the closing bookend on the NASDAQ’s spring rally — the markets...
by Jack Spencer | May 10, 2001 | POLITICS
Talk about quick. It would take more time for a missile to get here from North Korea than it took critics to fire off the same tired arguments against missile defense following President Bush’s recent speech at the National Defense University. What those...
by Alan Luber | May 10, 2001 | POLITICS
For the past few years, telecom companies have been working diligently to provide us with pseudo-broadband internet connections over copper (DSL) and cable (cable modem). I use the term “pseudo-broadband” because the existing telecom infrastructure can...
by James Pinkerton | May 10, 2001 | POLITICS
Here in the US, opposition to national missile defense (NMD) falls into four categories. Critics complain about its potential cost, its alleged unworkability, its putative damage to international relations, and its supposed irrelevance to the real threats to the US....
by Ken Adelman | May 10, 2001 | POLITICS
President Bush’s speech on ballistic missile defense (BMD) is a reaction to “the Kyoto complex,” where he made a big (and the right) decision (getting out of the protocol) without consultation. Now on BMD, he’s all consultation and no big...
by Don Luskin | May 9, 2001 | POLITICS
Just like old times. Cisco beat by a penny. It was easy, too. All they had to do was lower expectations far below anything you would have dared to imagine in your worst nightmares a year ago. And according to CEO John Chambers, it’ll be a snap to grow revenues...
by Jeff Jacoby | May 9, 2001 | POLITICS
Normal human beings would blanch at the thought of staging an athletic event at the site of an infamous massacre. But China’s Communist rulers, who are bidding hard to host the Summer Olympics in 2008, are not normal human beings. So it comes as no surprise that...
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