Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced.
Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.
In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern.
Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it.
There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.
MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before making any political contribution.
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
It is sad and shocking to think that victory and the lives of thousands of men are pawns to the "fear of They," and the writings of a group of unprincipled reporters, and weak-kneed congressmen.
When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.
The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
There has always been tension between reporters and the administration, particularly when it comes to war in the modern era. You can go to Kennedy or Johnson and see that they weren't happy with David Halberstam or Morley Safer.
He updated his report, doing his best to tune out the two men who staggered into the police station, dragging each other. "I want you to arrest this idiot bastard," the taller one shouted, face contorted with rage. "He shit on my front porch!" Your d...
