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And, while working at Drexel Burnham Lambert, a securities firm, Mr. Milken succeeded in selling junk bond offerings. His first such offering, in 1977, was for Texas International. Subsequent to that deal, Mr. Milken used the junk bond ...
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Traces the history of money and discusses stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures, and options.
sell because an investment has lost money. But if the reasons you bought it are still valid, a lower price may be a great time to buy more, not to sell. At the other end of the spectrum, some people refuse to sell their losers because ...
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Here is the best of the popular column Here's the Problem..., the business case-study version of Can This Marriage Be Saved, in which a problem affecting a particular small business is analyzed and recommendations are offered by two or more ...