Dear Stock Market Investor: Are you feeling depressed, and possibly worthless? Are you suffering from mood swings that make the daily gyrations in the Dow Jones industrial average look like a smooth ride on a flat country road? Have you watched in slow-motion horror as your Keogh, your I.R.A. and your children’s college-tuition funds have Read More
Fishy accounting practices; executives and directors cashing out for millions while employees and shareholders see their investments wiped out; investigations by Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation-no, this isn’t Enron we’re talking about, but rather Global Crossing, which had the good luck to implode after Enron and thus take Read More
Whenever Arizona Senator John McCain discusses the corruption
of Congress by corporate money, he correctly takes care to criticize both
parties. But as the Senate debates proposals for reform, it should be clear
that the Senator’s main antagonist is and always has been his fellow
Republican, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi. He is Read More
