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Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.

Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.

Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.

HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.

Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises.

The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

Plumbing is usually boring.

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.

Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.

Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.

As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.

As the Nasdaq soared in 1999 and early 2000, demand for many offerings far exceeded the supply of shares available at the initial offering price.

Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.

For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.

The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.

Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.

An attack on the scale of Sept. 11 would rock the markets and the economy.

Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.

Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.

Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'

Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings.

Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.

Predicting the market is always tough.

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.

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

I know it's a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring.

Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely.

Electronic communications networks match trades between investors directly, without using a market maker or specialist as an intermediary.

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.

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

Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced.

Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.

Before Jason Bourne, before Jack Ryan, there was Bond, James Bond, the original two-dimensional, world-saving secret agent.

For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.

Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.

The world is filled with great sporting events.

In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.

Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.

Even technology companies get good news sometimes.