COVER STORY Where to Invest in 2002 The New Rules of Risk: A battered economy, a brutal bear market, and an unrelenting battle against terrorism have driven investors to the sidelines. That's probably the wrong place to be now. A diversified portfolio will serve you better in 2002 UP FRONT Talk Show The Bloom Is off Idealab CSFB's Not-So-Painful Settlement Ford's Wrong Turn on the Internet September 11: A Blow to a Weakening Economy READERS REPORT Getting Feverish about Drug Prices No Snide Cracks about Dot-Coms, Please Questia: Revolutionary? Not to a Librarian Where Teaching Ranks on the Status Scale CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "The Super Bowl's Super Ad Drop" (In Business This Week, Dec. 17, 2001) BOOKS The Grapes of Wrath , Mexican-Style The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List TECHNOLOGY & YOU What Steve Sees on Tech's Horizon ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT America Will Lead the World Back to Growth ECONOMIC TRENDS Why High Tech May Rally Security As a Trade Barrier The Threat of a Huge Debt Load BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Few Signs of Life through the First Quarter VIDEO: Almost the End Israel: Terrorism Zaps the Economy NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Jobs: A Smarter Squeeze? Commentary: United Airlines: A Peace Mission the White House Should Skip Walter Hewlett: Behind His Big Switcheroo Commentary: Don't Believe the Yahoo! Hoopla The Pentagon's Highest-Flying Hawk ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A: A Talk with Bush's Tough Guy Commentary: What Vivendi Universal Really Needs Is NBC Can Amgen Go Toe-to-Toe with the Big Boys? Commentary: A Biotech Boom with a Difference Has Washington Mutual Been Buying Trouble? IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Charles Watson: Putting Pep in Dynegy's Step Citigroup's Long Adieu to Travelers FedEx Delivers--for Now There's Life after Merrill No Happy New Year for Motorola GE Pulls Out the Ax Again Et Cetera... Short Circuit INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Rebuilding Afghanistan from Scratch One Currency--but 15 Economies For Cap Gemini, the Wrong Mate at the Wrong Time? Commentary: Weakening the Yen Won't Make Japan Strong BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Not Getting Any Help from Your Ex? THE BARKER PORTFOLIO The Bonehead Barker Report INSIDE WALL STREET eBay--for Hard Times US Oncology: The Prognosis Is Buyout Acacia Is All Set to Blossom Video: A Gift for Investors FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS Healing Wounds, Learning Lessons INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM FRANCE Something Is Rotten in Roquefort INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Getting Feverish Over Drug Prices Subsidies Aren't the Answer to Poverty Shattering Confidence in Consultants INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L BUSINESS Commentary: One Currency--but 15 Economies INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf)
December 24, 2001
Commentary: Why a Few Enrons Would Do Europe Good
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