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  wages, 392, 393

  Walker, Jay, 288

  Wall Street firms

  advertising and, 170, 314, 435n.53

  aftermath of 1987 crash and, 73–77

  aftermath of Great Bull Market and, 341–42, 345–46

  baby boomers’ financial anxieties and, 117–18, 119

  on bear market possibility, 326–27

  bulls and bears (1996), 245–46

  Bush reform speech to, 343–44

  “buy” vs. “sell” recommendations, 56

  CNBC and, 155–56

  commission deregulation and, 182–83, 295

  distrust of, 116, 345–46

  Goldman Sach’s position among, 80–83

  Greenspan policies and, 94, 96, 244–45, 322

  gurus of, 82–101

  leveraged buyouts and, 74

  Levitt on culture of, 129

  LTCM bailout and, 285–87

  “morning call” of, 155–56

  mutual fund revenue-sharing with, 223, 235

  on Netscape IPO stock price, 100

  online trading competition, 257, 295

  research shortcomings, 182–84, 345–46, 349–50

  stock focus of, 358

  on stock options, 141

  on telecom selloffs, 321

  white-collar crime and, 76–77, 86, 116, 311–12

  women’s status in, 83, 87, 96, 97–101, 240, 241–43

  Wall Street Journal, xvii, 4, 28, 31, 61, 67, 84, 127, 139, 146, 149, 158, 161–62, 181, 208, 242, 244, 250, 271, 293, 442n.10

  Blodget’s e-mails leak to, 350

  Enron story, 169–70

  financial reporting, 169

  on individual investor’s new power, 107, 108, 335, 410–11n.29

  monthly mutual fund edition, 164

  short selling report, 54

  Wall Street Meat (Kessler), 348

  Wall Street Week with Fortune (PBS program), 387

  Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser (PBS program), 30, 71, 168, 228, 262, 304, 307–12, 313, 336

  Rukeyser’s firing from, 341–42

  Wal-Mart, 259, 277, 302

  stock performance, 26, 27, 287, 301, 327

  Walt Disney Company. See Disney Company Walters, Barbara, 91

  Walton, Sam, 371

  Wang, Charles, 428n.42

  Wanger, Ralph, 233–34, 235, 288, 323–24, 326, 341, 344, 361, 362–63, 367–68, 379

  war on terrorism, 394

  Warburg. See UBS Warburg

  Warburg, Paul M., 12

  Warner Lambert, 210

  Washington. See Congress; Federal Reserve System

  Washington Mutual, 393

  Washington Post, 120, 142, 167, 170, 171, 240, 270, 293

  Wasserman, Ed, 28–29, 421n.23

  Wasserman, Gary, 111–15, 117, 121

  Waste Management, 274

  Watergate scandal, 88, 89

  Waters, Maxine, 344

  wealth ownership

  by Buffett, 137

  date of market entrance and, 154, 334, 430n.4

  losses and, 334

  market psychology of, 43, 381–82

  percentage of 1990s growth in, 18

  sources of, 371–72, 378–80

  as stock investor fantasy, 32

  Weil, Jonathan, 158, 169, 170

  Weill, Sandy, 125, 347

  Weinberg, John, 82

  Weinberg, Sidney, 82

  Welch, Jack, 67, 145, 328, 429n.42, 442n.10

  Welling, Kathryn, 225, 277, 315, 342, 360, 453n.8

  Wells Fargo, 429n.42

  Wessel, David, 244–45

  When Genius Failed (Lowenstein), 282

  whistle blowers, 55, 57, 58

  Whitaker, Mark, 166

  white-collar crime. See fraud and corruption

  Whitman, Marty, 176, 315

  Whitney, Richard, 30

  Wien, Byron, 13, 21, 25, 54, 63–64, 96, 100, 158

  bullishness of, 245, 247, 248

  Willens, Robert, 208

  Wilshire 5,000, 187

  Wilson, David, 425n.24 windfall profits, 74

  Windsor Fund, 439n.32

  Winnick, Gary, 319–20, 321, 322 Wolfe, Tom, 58, 73, 96

  Wolff, Edward N., 340

  Wolman, William, 103, 419n.5

  Wolper, Gregg, 389

  women

  investment psychology of, 106–7

  as mutual fund investors, 114

  Wall Street and, 83, 87, 96, 97–101, 240, 241–43

  Woodward, Bob, 92, 248, 249

  Woolworth, 206

  WorldCom, 26, 28, 159, 183, 208, 314, 320, 432n.22

  corporate malfeasance, 343, 344, 348

  See also MCI WorldCom

  World of Gold, The (Green), 375

  Wright, Orville, 26

  Wriston, Walter, 20

  Wyatt, Ed, 164

  Wyatt Company, 425n.25

  Wynn, Steve, 125

  Xerox, 210, 302

  Yahoo!, 107, 195, 199, 289, 292, 296, 302, 335

  Yale University, 37, 56, 245, 246, 291

  Yardeni, Edward, 251

  Yippies, 37

  Zacks Investment Research, 56

  Zweig, Martin, 67, 412n.9

  About the Author

  MAGGIE MAHAR joined the financial press in the early 1980s, just as the bull market began. She has made television appearances on Good Day New York, MSNBC, Lifetime, and Bloomberg television, and currently writes on a freelance basis for Bloomberg.

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