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Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.

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In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

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What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.

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Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited.

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Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

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Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

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The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.

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Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

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To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.

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Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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