For Investors, the Blessed and the Basted
Our first-ever Thanksgiving Awards, we hope, will remind the investing public who to be thankful for this year -- and who were the turkeys
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By Amey Stone
These past three years have been woeful for investors. They have suffered through pain and punishment as stocks fell, top corporate chiefs were revealed as greedy louts, and corruption and conflicts of interest plagued the financial world. But just as in 1621, when the Pilgrims finally had a successful harvest after a tough time in Plymouth, investors now have cause to celebrate. The economy is humming, the stock market is up 20% this year, and it looks like at least a few of the investing worlds' miscreants are getting their just desserts.