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Article: Taking stock of Wall Street's crack job: Accounting is one wild and crazy profession
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 3, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright 2002 Charleston Daily Mail. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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WALL Street is in trouble. This is your fault. Yes, I am talking
to YOU, Mr. or Ms. Small Investor. Wall Street is getting sick and
tired of your namby-pamby "wait and see" attitude toward the stock
market. Wall Street wants you to show some courage and resume handing
your money over to Wall Street, the way you did back in the excellent
1990s, when we had a New Economy, and leading Wall Street analysts
were touting all these amazing new companies that were in the
exciting new business of . . . OK, nobody really knew what exact
business they were in, but it was NEW!
Back then, the message from Wall Street, as expressed in TV
commercials for brokerage firms, was that if you gave them your ...