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...Like the boom in the stock market, the surge in IPOs has been fueled by the astonishing torrent of cash pouring into mutual funds--cash that has to be invested. The net assets of stock funds have jumped nearly 75%, to $1.53 trillion, since January 1995 alone. Fresh cash has been arriving this year at the rate of more than $20 billion a month. All told, some 2,800 companies have gone public since 1990, raising about $150 billion to build new factories and help create more than 10 million new jobs...
...examples of horrific treatment caught on camera and widely publicized have created a boom in the nanny-surveillance industry. Babywatch Corp., a company based in Spring Valley, New York, has sold $5,000 hidden-camera setups to entrepreneurs in 20 cities, who rent them out for about $200 a pop. Other anxious parents are buying their own devices. Quark International, a New York-based manufacturer, has seen its sales of nannycams triple during the past few years. The Counter Spy Shop in Manhattan sells about a dozen a month, including teddy bears at $649 each, as well as those...
...your house," says Teresa Edwards, a 5 ft. 11 in. guard from Atlanta and the first American basketball player, man or woman, to compete in four Olympics. "But when you get to this level of international competition as a member of one of the best teams in the world, boom! Now you know 'I'm good.' You have to be good to be on this team...
...bankruptcy boom may signal trouble ahead for the U.S. economy. Real after-tax income growth has been slow for years, yet consumers have continued to buy; they have simply substituted debt for cash. Now they are even flashing plastic to buy groceries. Household borrowing currently stands at a record $1.14 trillion, an amount equal to Britain's entire gross domestic product. A spike in interest rates could thus send U.S. consumers--not to mention the rest of the economy--into a funk...
...great Internet boom has been fueled by a startling business model: make a great product, then give it away. Browser titan Netscape and search-engine companies like Yahoo distribute free goods, hoping that market share will pay off when the Net supports profitable ventures...