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It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Along Among Biggest Companies Down Environment Financial Fundamental Go Interest Interest Rates Losers Market Principles Rates Rising Should Stock Stock Market Stocks Technology Up

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Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them are valued at extremely high levels relative to their current earnings.

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Topics: Because Course Current Earnings Extremely Future High Hurt Levels Many More Others Relative Should Stocks Technology Than Them Valued

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Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Attorney Bank Billions Billions Of Dollars Capital Commerce Credit District Dollars Few Financial Frauds He His International Investors Lead Like Local Manhattan Prosecutor Robert Schemes Seen Stole Time Which World Worldwide

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For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Anyone Arrived Beautiful Behind Desperate Distinguish Driven Edward Ego Ever Everything Girlfriend He Heads Him His Idealism Job Leaves Like Man Masters Me Moscow Must Novelist Punish Refuge Search Snowden Spy Story Tell Two Vow World

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Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Bends Calling Did Free Give Him Journalists Out Past Recognition Secrets Snowden Spies Spy Start Term Mr

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Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Anyone Before Being Chance Congress Consider Did Fair Fair Trial Flying Him Hong Kong House Human Human Being Kong Like Offering Snowden Testify Treating Trial White White House Mr

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Fannie Mae has never publicly disclosed how much money it could lose if interest rates rose 1.5 percentage points in a very short period of time.

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Topics: Could How How Much How Much Money Interest Interest Rates Lose Money Much Never Percentage Period Points Publicly Rates Rose Short Short Period Time Very

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For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.

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Topics: Critics Does Enough Give Information Judge Risks Them Warned Years

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Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As a result, many professional investors think the government would repay the debt that Fannie Mae had issued if the company could not, although Fannie Mae explicitly says that its bonds do not carry a federal guarantee.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Although Bonds Carry Charter Company Could Debt Explicitly Federal Government Guarantee Had Investors Local Many Owned Paying Professional Repay Result Says Shareholders State Taxes Think Would

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Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Assets Changes Company Cushion Debt Enough Enough Money Equity Financial Greater Hold Institutions Leaving Leverage Losses Money Out People Protects Repay Required Smaller Unexpected Value Who Wipe Without

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 6th, 1973

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