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Where to Invest in 2003
How to get the biggest bang out of a treacherous market: BusinessWeek's yearend Investment Outlook gives you the economic and market overviews to help you plan -- and the sector-by-sector details to help you make the smartest investment choices
UP FRONT
Talk Show
Disney: More Insiders at the Castle
At United, a Lock on Stock Sales
Look Who Says "Soak the Rich"
The 2002 News Quiz
READERS REPORT
The Meaning of the Ken Lipper Saga
The New Philanthropy: What Gives?
Get Off the Golf Course, Tech Investors
What Robert Barro Doesn't Know about Dockworkers
Slurs Fell on Alabama
A Faithful Reader Spots an Evergreen Idea
No Skirting the Rules to Sell Tech in China
Give the Accountants More Credit
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS
"FedEx: Gaining on the ground" (The Corporation, Dec. 16, 2002)
"Which adviser knows the way?" (BusinessWeek Investor, Nov. 25, 2002)
BOOKS
Is Democracy Dangerous?
The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List (.pdf)
The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List
TECHNOLOGY & YOU
Gazing into My Crystal PC...
ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT
What the Scandals Reveal: A Strong Economy
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
U.S.: The Recovery Gains Traction after a Muddy Autumn
Eastern Europe: The Big EU Hopefuls Are Pushing Their Luck
Loose fiscal and monetary policies in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia could cause problems upon their entry into the EU
NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
The Great Budget Debate
Why the Supply Siders are Scrambling
How Do You Tally the Benefits of a Tax Cut?
A Shocker from the Oil Patch
Memo to CEOs: Give It Up
Go East, Young Chipmaker
Commentary: E-Tail Stocks: 'Tis the Season to Be Wary
George Soros Is Back in the Game
Who Says CEOs Are Grinches?
IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK
Deborah Hopkins: Winds of Change
Conseco Throws in the Towel
History on the Basketball Court
WorldCom Clears the Decks
Red Ink at the Golden Arches
Can UAL Jettison its Labor Deal?
Et Cetera...
Not So Boffo
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK
Even If Lott Goes, Damage Has Been Done
Mr. and Mrs. Juice
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Putting Up Walls Inside the EU
Can Diekmann Plug the Leaks in Allianz?
THE BARKER PORTFOLIO
Bob's Biggest Bloopers of the Year
INSIDE WALL STREET
Angling for Instinet?
From Exact Sciences, a Better Cancer Test
Singing Machine May Join a Larger Chorus
FIGURES OF THE WEEK
Figures of the Week (.pdf)
EDITORIALS
What We Learned in 2002
INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT
Greater China: Progress--and Misplaced Anxiety
Why Profits Aren't Pouring in for Starbucks in Japan
What Makes Microsoft Mighty? Not Innovation or Price
Boeing's Jet of the Future: Thanks, but No Thanks
A Good Stockpicker Is a Lucky Stockpicker
Bush's Tax Cut: On the Right Track
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS
A Crusader Who's Taking India Private
Guangzhou Daily: From Rag to Riches to...
INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
Yoox: Discounted Luxury
The Italian e-tailer thrives by selling designer clothes cheaply -- who cares if it's not the latest?
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L OUTLOOK
France: Raffarin Can't Afford to Wait on Reform
A Shakeup in Euro Finance?
Iraq's Unruly Opposition
INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK
International Figures of the Week
ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS
December 23, 2002
German Businesses Head for Lower-Cost Shores
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