Wall Street turns a cold shoulder on dividends because there's nothing in it for them.
Sears Holdings, the department store chain controlled by billionaire Eddie Lampert, got a cold reception as traders returned to Wall Street Tuesday.
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There's always been an undercurrent of xenophobia in the "Die Hard" series, but this movie's crude insistence on a corrupt, morally bankrupt Russia betrays simple-minded nostalgia for those Cold War days when the Berlin Wall demarcated good and evil.
And given that (a) Wall Street is a cold-hearted place and (b) stocks have been moving in a straight up fashion on the tails of strong earnings, decent economic data, and a renewed plunge in the dollar, it is important to note that stocks have become overbought and are due for at least some sort of a pullback in the near future.
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With the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the rise of Nirvana, nuclear anxiety gave way to more unchanneled angst accompanied by fewer synthesizers.
There's nothing like a shooting war between Cold War proxies to take the starch out of Wall Street.
Clinging hopefully to the mirage of an unchanging and defensible status quo, while seeking to revive the ethos and rationale of Cold War alliances (a theme being seen even in The Wall Street Journal), is delusional and counter-productive.
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This would not bother them, except that these days hard-up Berlin helps make ends meet by luring tourists who want to catch a last glimpse of the cold war and whose first wish is to see where the wall was.
The Cold War was, in many ways, characterised by the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 - an iconic symbol that was visited several times by the team.
This time last year police removed protesters from the Wall Street park where they had camped for almost two months, and cold winter temperatures drove the movement's other outposts indoors.
Calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and demanding that Mikhail Gorbachev "tear down" the wall separating East and West Germany, Reagan advanced a vision of the Cold War that found considerable support.
Bush faced a dramatically changing world, as the Cold War ended after 40 bitter years, the Communist empire broke up, and the Berlin Wall fell.
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