Word: stocking
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hear just fine and feel just fine. Check out these pecs: Consumer confidence is at a record high; unemployment, a 30-year low. New-home sales set a record last year after surging 4.5% in December. The core rate of inflation is barely perceptible, less than 2%. The stock market is soaring, and corporations are ringing up record profits. Heck, I'm running a marathon. I'm popular with sexy young dotcoms. I haven't even written my will yet. So don't give me that how-do-you-feel stuff...
...That's silly. Sure, consumers are spending a bit too much and saving a bit too little, taking on a bit too much debt. But they're also more invested in the stock market than ever. The growth of their portfolios tempers all that. And I'm well aware that Internet stocks with aggregate net losses and annual revenue of just $30 billion now carry $1 trillion of market value. O.K., that's a burden. But it will lighten gradually as winners and losers shake out. I can hold on long enough. This is the Viagra...
...what if falling stock prices knock you down? Will you be able...
...cool on Wall Street. The stock was pounded last October on fears that the company's 30% annual growth might be slowing. Yet in the Christmas quarter, sales rose 27% on the strength of the magalog, themed Naughty or Nice, which gained notoriety with its racy pictures and an interview with a porn star, prompting public complaints from the attorney general of Michigan and the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. The Establishment outraged--what better way to appeal to the youth market...
...demanding equity stakes in client companies--equity that can be distributed throughout the firm. But there is one advantage to the salaries the law firms are offering: it's all in cash. Or, as Major likes to tell his junior associates, "You can't pay your mortgage in stock options...