Market & Economy

Magazine articles on market level and economy, market sectors, international markets, growth vs. value.

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U.S. Banker November 2001	Stock Market Meets Reality The dramatic decline of the stock market following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks brought the market much closer to reality, a move that was bound to come, attack or not...
Knowledge@Wharton	Why It's So Hard to Measure the World Bank's Progress A business ethics consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers who holds a doctorate in international relations from Brown University and wrote his dissertation on the moral obligations of the World Bank and other international financial institutions explains...
Knowledge@Wharton	The Tech Boom: Valuation Inflation, A Flood of Day Traders and Other Excesses Everyone now agrees that the 1990s technology boom was a bubble. But two years ago, that would have been unusually hard to predict, according to participants at the Wharton Finance Conference held last month...
Reason November 2001 Michael W. Lynch	Global Dumping As developing countries have rhetorically embraced free trade in recent years, they've also embraced the protectionism favored by First World free traders...
Knowledge@Wharton	James J. Cramer Finds Truth and Inspiration in the Shopping Habits of Americans For his part, the hedge-fund manager-turned-journalist and CNBC analyst has been following three stocks -- Home Depot, Wal-Mart and Kohl's -- that he says are better indicators of what the average consumer is actually buying than consumer confidence surveys are...
Knowledge@Wharton	Citigroup CFO Sees Economic Recovery in mid-2002 While acknowledging difficult months ahead for the U.S. economy and the global marketplace in general, the CFO of Citigroup also predicted that in the long run -- and absent new terrorist attacks -- the economy has a good chance at recovery...
IndustryWeek October 10, 2001 John S. McClenahen	Manufacturing Business Outlook Shows Continuing Contraction However, survey suggests makings of manufacturing recovery exist, reports Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI...
Science News October 20, 2001 Ivars Peterson	Firm Data To determine the firm size distribution in the United States, Robert L. Axtell turned to data gathered in 1997 by the U.S. Census Bureau. He discovered that, for each 10-fold increase in size, the number of firms was roughly one-tenth as large -- an example of a scaling of power law...
U.S. Banker October 2001 Paul Muolo	Monetarism Lives! Monetarists? They're barely heard from anymore. But monetarism was the rage for much of the 1980s, when inflation was soaring...
Knowledge@Wharton	Japan's Economic Outlook Remains Gloomy But Opportunities Exist for Investors Japan's stock market -- and its economy -- have been basket cases for more than a decade. But some sectors of the Japanese economy may be attractive for long-term investors...
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