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• New Year's Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 31, 1998
  
• Amazon.com's Amazing Tax Break 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 29, 1998
  
• Did Crack Cause the '80s Crime Spree? 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 29, 1998
  
• Christmas Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 23, 1998
  
• All Internet Stocks Aren't Equal(ly Overpriced) 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 22, 1998
  
• Cramer's Right, CNBC's Wrong 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 21, 1998
  
• Why Impeachment Made the Market's Day 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 21, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 17, 1998
  
• The Record Industry's Fear of the Future 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 17, 1998
  
• Goldman's Grim Quarter 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 16, 1998
  
• In Defense of Day Traders 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 14, 1998
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 10, 1998
  
• GE: Dressed for Succession 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 10, 1998
  
• Stupid Stadiums, Mindless Mergers 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 9, 1998
  
• Hoffa Power 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 7, 1998
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 3, 1998
  
• Boeing's Problems Aren't All in Asia 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 2, 1998
  
• The Hidden Costs of Overvalued Net Stocks 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 1, 1998
  
• Weeding the Oil Patch 
  James Surowiecki Dec. 1, 1998
  
• Turkey Talk 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 25, 1998
  
• The Germans: More Like Us 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 24, 1998
  
• Antitrust Mania 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 24, 1998
  
• What's in Netscape for AOL? 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 24, 1998
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 20, 1998
  
• How to Price a Baseball Player 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 19, 1998
  
• Discount-Rate Cuts 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 17, 1998
  
• Dot.com Delusion 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 17, 1998
  
• Nasdaq to Investors: Wake Up, Fools! 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 16, 1998
  
• Weekend Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 13, 1998
  
• Brazil's Downward Slide 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 12, 1998
  
• eBay's Rocket Stock 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 10, 1998
  
• Barnes & Nobles' Good Old-Fashioned Idea 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 9, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 6, 1998
  
• Hoffa's Empty Populism 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 4, 1998
  
• NBAers of the World, Unite! 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 3, 1998
  
• Greenspan's Preemptive Strike 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 2, 1998
  
• Japan's Creaky Conglomerates 
  James Surowiecki Nov. 2, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 30, 1998
  
• P.T. Barnum on the Web 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 28, 1998
  
• CNET's Creative Accounting 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 27, 1998
  
• Buffett's Long-Term Gamble on Long-Term Capital 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 26, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 23, 1998
  
• The Arbitary Ways of Arbitrageurs 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 22, 1998
  
• E-Mail From the Free Market Straw Men 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 21, 1998
  
• Value Subtracted at Sunbeam 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 20, 1998
  
• Dampening Merger Mania 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 19, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 15, 1998
  
• Friedman's Foolish Consistency 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 14, 1998
  
• Bears and Brokerages 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 14, 1998
  
• Seizing the Invisible Hand 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 12, 1998
  
• Weekend Talking Points 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 8, 1998
  
• More Long-Term Looniness 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 7, 1998
  
• Minimum Worth 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 6, 1998
  
• Nasdaq Nosedive 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 5, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Oct. 1, 1998
  
• Yeltsin Fires His Last Reformer 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 30, 1998
  
• Greenspan's Unsurprising Move 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 29, 1998
  
• Long-Term Capital's Bad Bet 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 28, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 24, 1998
  
• Seinfeld Winner's Curse 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 23, 1998
  
• The Opaque Bond Market 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 23, 1998
  
• Japan Bungles Bank Reform 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 21, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 17, 1998
  
• The Proper Degree of Panic 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 16, 1998
  
• Clinton Proposes, Greenspan Disposes 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 15, 1998
  
• Goodwill Shunting 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 14, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 10, 1998
  
• Japan's Miser Mentality 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 9, 1998
  
• The Greenspan Rally 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 8, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 3, 1998
  
• Crime Without Punishment 
  James Surowiecki Sept. 2, 1998
  
• The Wealth Effect 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 31, 1998
  
• Shows to Watch 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 31, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 27, 1998
  
• The Fall of Russia 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 27, 1998
  
• The Myth of Oversold Markets 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 26, 1998
  
• Going Public, Going Down 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 25, 1998
  
• Appletalk 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 24, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 19, 1998
  
• The Trouble With Stoking Stocks 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 18, 1998
  
• Surprises Don't Sell 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 17, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 13, 1998
  
• America's Greedy CEOs 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 13, 1998
  
• The Inscrutable Stock Market 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 11, 1998
  
• Fill 'er Up 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 10, 1998
  
• Cocktail Chatter 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 6, 1998
  
• GM Spins Off Delphi 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 5, 1998
  
• Bear Call 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 4, 1998
  
• The Expectations Game 
  James Surowiecki Aug. 3, 1998
  
• Chit Chat 
  James Surowiecki July 31, 1998
  
• DoubleClicking Double Talk 
  James Surowiecki July 30, 1998
  
• The Multi-Million-Dollar Wages of Sin 
  James Surowiecki July 29, 1998
  
• The Daydream Economy 
  James Surowiecki July 28, 1998
  
• Chit Chat 
  James Surowiecki July 22, 1998
  
• Selling the CEO 
  James Surowiecki July 22, 1998
  
• Stock Shenanigans 
  James Surowiecki July 21, 1998
  
• Excite-ing Numbers 
  James Surowiecki July 20, 1998
  
• Chit Chat 
  James Surowiecki July 16, 1998
  
• Intel Aside 
  James Surowiecki July 15, 1998
  
• A Wee Bit Wistful About Wall Street 
  James Surowiecki July 14, 1998
  
• The UPS Pas de Deux 
  James Surowiecki July 13, 1998
  
• Chit Chat 
  James Surowiecki July 10, 1998
  
• The Bad and the Good 
  James Surowiecki July 10, 1998
  
• Wall Street Whistling 
  James Surowiecki July 8, 1998
  
• The Dirty Little Truth About Corporate Lies 
  James Surowiecki July 6, 1998
  
• Fireworks Chat 
  James Surowiecki July 2, 1998
  
• Dealward Ho! 
  James Surowiecki July 1, 1998
  
• Microsoft's Nemesis 
  James Surowiecki June 29, 1998
  
• Chit Chat 
  James Surowiecki June 26, 1998
  
• Malone's 3-D Chess 
  James Surowiecki June 25, 1998
  
• A Merger That Might Make Sense 
  James Surowiecki June 24, 1998
  
• Sunbeam's Strange Saga 
  James Surowiecki June 23, 1998
  
• Buffett's Equivocal Bull 
  James Surowiecki June 22, 1998
  
• Chit Chat 
  James Surowiecki June 19, 1998
  
• AT&T's AOL Hangup 
  James Surowiecki June 18, 1998
  
• Goldman's Gold 
  James Surowiecki June 16, 1998
  
• Dumping Dunlap 
  James Surowiecki June 15, 1998
  
• Chit Chat 
  James Surowiecki June 12, 1998
  
• Walking the Picket Line 
  James Surowiecki June 11, 1998
  
• Strikes as Usual 
  James Surowiecki June 10, 1998
  
• Real Things 
  James Surowiecki June 8, 1998
  
• Chit Chat 
  James Surowiecki June 5, 1998
  
• No headline 
  James Surowiecki June 4, 1998
  
• Dogging Intel 
  James Surowiecki June 3, 1998
  
• Chips and Dips 
  James Surowiecki June 2, 1998