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Caution and vigor rarely travel in tandem, but TIME's Board of Economists called for hefty measures of both as members looked at the prospects for a dynamic world economy. Global megamergers, lofty stock valuations, the exponential growth of the Internet--the salient features of the dawning 21st century are a welter of challenges for the world's investors, business leaders and workers. No one doubts that the future is volatile. The question is whether--and for whom--volatility translates into vulnerability...
Boiler Room traces the steps of 19 year-old Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi), a college dropout who enters into a success-driven, overly aggressive stock brokerage firm, which happens to be one of the biggest scams in American history. J.T. Marlin brokerage firm recruits money-hungry, twenty-something, want-to-be brokers, who know nothing and want nothing but money...
...take my hat off to the studio. Usually studios feel the need for a big name in each role. Also, just because you have that sci-fi premise doesn't mean that you have to have stock characters. We have the archetypal characters, but the characters change and evolve. Sci-fi is such a familiar arena and yet you don't know what's going on. You think you know how it's going to happen, but the hero of the movie changes. We're juggling with your notions of what is a hero, and what is not a hero...
...Greenspan is concerned that demand for products and services is growing at a faster pace than the economy can supply," says TIME financial writer Bernard Baumohl. "That's the formula for inflation." This rampant demand, notes Baumohl, is based largely on the success of the stock market, in which an unprecedented percentage of Americans now have a stake. "The Fed sees the stock market leading consumers to act in a way that may not be rational," he says. "Consumers check their portfolios and see gains, and spend money based on those gains before cashing in their stocks." That...
...catch up to this wily young crop of mischief-seekers. In fact, firms may be more willing to cooperate with their fellow e-businesses than with big government agencies, particularly those from other countries, for fear of compromising web secrets. So if you're looking for a hot stock in the Internet world, you might want to consider one of these cyber-security firms. After all, if there's one thing scarier than the notion of a bored kid holding America's economy hostage with a new smurfing program, it's the prices these types of firms will be able...