Tuesday, September 24, 2002
It’s all gone: The headline on this story says it all. Poof! Vanished. The dot-com era’s gains are now officially a thing of the past. Globe columnist Charlie Stein on the connection between the stock market's performance and corporate scandals: “Sorry, but I don't buy it. The scandals matter. They are part of the story. But only a part. The bigger story is more fundamental. To paraphrase an old slogan from the Clinton years, ‘It's the earnings, stupid.’”
