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Article: Taking stock of Wall Street's crack job: Accounting is one wild and crazy profession

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August 3, 2002
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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

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