by Maggie Mahar
wages, 392, 393
Walker, Jay, 288
Wall Street firms
advertising and, 170, 314, 435n.53
aftermath of 1987 crash and, 73–77
aftermath of Great Bull Market and, 341–42, 345–46
baby boomers’ financial anxieties and, 117–18, 119
on bear market possibility, 326–27
bulls and bears (1996), 245–46
Bush reform speech to, 343–44
“buy” vs. “sell” recommendations, 56
CNBC and, 155–56
commission deregulation and, 182–83, 295
distrust of, 116, 345–46
Goldman Sach’s position among, 80–83
Greenspan policies and, 94, 96, 244–45, 322
gurus of, 82–101
leveraged buyouts and, 74
Levitt on culture of, 129
LTCM bailout and, 285–87
“morning call” of, 155–56
mutual fund revenue-sharing with, 223, 235
on Netscape IPO stock price, 100
online trading competition, 257, 295
research shortcomings, 182–84, 345–46, 349–50
stock focus of, 358
on stock options, 141
on telecom selloffs, 321
white-collar crime and, 76–77, 86, 116, 311–12
women’s status in, 83, 87, 96, 97–101, 240, 241–43
Wall Street Journal, xvii, 4, 28, 31, 61, 67, 84, 127, 139, 146, 149, 158, 161–62, 181, 208, 242, 244, 250, 271, 293, 442n.10
Blodget’s e-mails leak to, 350
Enron story, 169–70
financial reporting, 169
on individual investor’s new power, 107, 108, 335, 410–11n.29
monthly mutual fund edition, 164
short selling report, 54
Wall Street Meat (Kessler), 348
Wall Street Week with Fortune (PBS program), 387
Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser (PBS program), 30, 71, 168, 228, 262, 304, 307–12, 313, 336
Rukeyser’s firing from, 341–42
Wal-Mart, 259, 277, 302
stock performance, 26, 27, 287, 301, 327
Walt Disney Company. See Disney Company Walters, Barbara, 91
Walton, Sam, 371
Wang, Charles, 428n.42
Wanger, Ralph, 233–34, 235, 288, 323–24, 326, 341, 344, 361, 362–63, 367–68, 379
war on terrorism, 394
Warburg. See UBS Warburg
Warburg, Paul M., 12
Warner Lambert, 210
Washington. See Congress; Federal Reserve System
Washington Mutual, 393
Washington Post, 120, 142, 167, 170, 171, 240, 270, 293
Wasserman, Ed, 28–29, 421n.23
Wasserman, Gary, 111–15, 117, 121
Waste Management, 274
Watergate scandal, 88, 89
Waters, Maxine, 344
wealth ownership
by Buffett, 137
date of market entrance and, 154, 334, 430n.4
losses and, 334
market psychology of, 43, 381–82
percentage of 1990s growth in, 18
sources of, 371–72, 378–80
as stock investor fantasy, 32
Weil, Jonathan, 158, 169, 170
Weill, Sandy, 125, 347
Weinberg, John, 82
Weinberg, Sidney, 82
Welch, Jack, 67, 145, 328, 429n.42, 442n.10
Welling, Kathryn, 225, 277, 315, 342, 360, 453n.8
Wells Fargo, 429n.42
Wessel, David, 244–45
When Genius Failed (Lowenstein), 282
whistle blowers, 55, 57, 58
Whitaker, Mark, 166
white-collar crime. See fraud and corruption
Whitman, Marty, 176, 315
Whitney, Richard, 30
Wien, Byron, 13, 21, 25, 54, 63–64, 96, 100, 158
bullishness of, 245, 247, 248
Willens, Robert, 208
Wilshire 5,000, 187
Wilson, David, 425n.24 windfall profits, 74
Windsor Fund, 439n.32
Winnick, Gary, 319–20, 321, 322 Wolfe, Tom, 58, 73, 96
Wolff, Edward N., 340
Wolman, William, 103, 419n.5
Wolper, Gregg, 389
women
investment psychology of, 106–7
as mutual fund investors, 114
Wall Street and, 83, 87, 96, 97–101, 240, 241–43
Woodward, Bob, 92, 248, 249
Woolworth, 206
WorldCom, 26, 28, 159, 183, 208, 314, 320, 432n.22
corporate malfeasance, 343, 344, 348
See also MCI WorldCom
World of Gold, The (Green), 375
Wright, Orville, 26
Wriston, Walter, 20
Wyatt, Ed, 164
Wyatt Company, 425n.25
Wynn, Steve, 125
Xerox, 210, 302
Yahoo!, 107, 195, 199, 289, 292, 296, 302, 335
Yale University, 37, 56, 245, 246, 291
Yardeni, Edward, 251
Yippies, 37
Zacks Investment Research, 56
Zweig, Martin, 67, 412n.9
About the Author
MAGGIE MAHAR joined the financial press in the early 1980s, just as the bull market began. She has made television appearances on Good Day New York, MSNBC, Lifetime, and Bloomberg television, and currently writes on a freelance basis for Bloomberg.
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