Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982–2004

by Maggie Mahar

LTCM bailout and,

productivity decline,

Barbarians at the Gate (Burrough and Helyar),

Barron’s,

bear market,

bull market overlap,

financial pundits

forecasters,

investment alternatives,

investor losses,

predictions,

as proportionate to prior bull market,

psychological factor,

value investors and,

market cycles

17 Behind the Numbers

Berkshire Hathaway, 21,

Buffett on dollar slide,

Buffett on overpriced stock,

Buffet on 2004 market potential,

Bernanke, Ben S.,

market prospects (2004)

Bezos, Jeffrey, 97,

Big Blue. See IBM

biotechnology,

Black, Fischer, 427n.36

Black Monday. See crash of 1987 Black-Scholes model, 427n.36

Amazon.com forecast,

scapegoating of, xx–

Bloomberg, Michael,

Bloomberg News (online news service),

blue-chip stocks,

1995–99 bull market, 210 1960s bull market, 40–41

technology prices,

“Nifty Fifty” stocks

Boeing,

bonds,

basic difference between stocks and, 423n.49

efficient market theory

Faber recommendations,

junk bonds vs.,

potential for (2003),

Russian default,

stock performance comparisons,

bonds

Vinik recommendations,

yield decline,

book value,

brokers, 20, 21, 36, 85, 156, 223 discount, 182, 257 fee deregulation, 182–83, 295 kickbacks by, 311–12, 342 losses by, 341 margin buying and, 244, 322, 460n.13 online trading and, 257, 295

bubble