1998 Special Features Archive
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December

• 12/30/98 -- Foolish Resolutions
  
• 12/24/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Chestnuts, Jack Frost, and So On
• 12/24/98 -- Christmas at the Fool
  
• 12/18/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Apropos - TMF Cheeze takes a look at the past week and the past year in this week's Notes.
• 12/17/98 -- '98 Year In Review, Day 1
  Which stocks came out on top? Read part one of this four-part year-in-review series to find out.
• 12/11/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  I'm Okay. Really.
• 12/11/98 -- Top 10 Roth IRA Questions
• 12/09/98 -- Eyes on the Wise
  Why should you keep your eyes on the Wise? Read these stories on a fund czar, an analyst, and a broker and find out.
• 12/07/98 -- Hot Stack Tips
  Books Worth a Look
• 12/04/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Jerry Thomas eyes the Cash-King Portfolio's series on the Wise. Read his open letter to Tom Gardner
• 12/03/98 -- Budgeting for the Holidays
  
• 12/03/98 -- November Retail Sales
  
• 12/01/98 -- Year-End Tax Planning
  IRA's and 401(k)'s

November

• 11/30/98 -- Year-End Tax Planning
  IRA's and 401(k)'s
• 11/30/98 -- Hope Springs Internet
  IPO's and Consolidation
• 11/27/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Cheezelessness
• 11/24/98 -- A Foolish Thanksgiving
  
• 11/23/98 -- AOL's Overnight Landscaping
• 11/20/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Mania Tear Has to Fall
• 11/19/98 -- Doorstep Dividends
  Attack of the Shareholder Perks
• 11/17/98 -- Greenspan Says Cut... Again!
  The Federal Reserve announced a cut in U.S. interest rates today. We've got the press release plus information on the Fed and Alan Greenspan.
• 11/13/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  George, We Hardly Knew Ye
• 11/12/98 -- Tips for NBA Players
• 11/06/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Wrestling Minnesota
• 11/05/98 -- How's Your Alma Mater Handling Your Donations?
• 11/05/98 -- October Retail Sales
  Find Out How Your Favorite Store Fared Last Month

October

• 10/30/98 -- The Cop Is on the Beat
  The SEC Busts Online Stock Promoters
• 10/27/98 -- Halloween 1998
  
• 10/23/98 -- Feature
  Iomega Appoints New CEO and It's Not Our Pick
• 10/23/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Ports in a Storm
• 10/22/98 -- Social Security, Part 4
  One Foolish Actuary's Opinion
• 10/21/98 -- Social Security, Part 3
  Fixing Social Security
• 10/20/98 -- Social Security, Part 2
  How We Fund Our Social Security System
• 10/19/98 -- Social Security, Part 1
  How the Social Security System Works
• 10/16/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Accountability and the Old Guard
• 10/15/98 -- Inside Business Week's "Inside Wall Street"
• 10/14/98 -- A Trip to the Sun
  A Motley Fool Interview with Sun Microsystems
• 10/12/98 -- TMF Interview With Hadco Treasury Manager Rich Gerrity
• 10/09/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  And You Can Quote Me
• 10/08/98 -- September Retail Sales
• 10/08/98 -- Generation $
  Market-Savvy Teens Take on Wall Street
• 10/06/98 -- America Online. So Advanced, It's Backwards?
  AOL's center of gravity
• 10/02/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Fools in the House
• 10/01/98 -- Merrill Lynch: The Big Bad Wolf
  Once there was a Foolish investor known to all as Little Red Riding Hood.

September

• 09/29/98 -- Mr. Gardner Goes to Washington
  Fool co-founder David Gardner's testimony for an oversight hearing on mutual fund fees and price competition before the U.S. House Commerce Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials
• 09/25/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Here Comes the Hun
• 09/24/98 -- The Fool Responds
  The Motley Fool Says Online Trading Is Bad for Merrill Lynch
• 09/18/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Building Pyramids on Mars
• 09/17/98 -- The Year 2000 Bug (Part 5 of 5)
  Part 5: The Problem is Y2K Hype, Not Software
• 09/17/98 -- 3Dfx CEO Comments on Q3 and Q4
  In an interview with the Fool, 3Dfx CEO Greg Ballard comments on the outlook for Q3, Q4, and the new Voodoo Banshee chip.
• 09/17/98 -- The Year 2000 Bug (Part 4 of 5)
  Part 4: How Companies Are Working to Fix It.
• 09/16/98 -- The Year 2000 Bug (Part 3 of 5)
  Part 3: What the Y2K Problem Actually Is.
• 09/15/98 -- The Year 2000 Bug (Part 2 of 5)
  Part 2: Consider the Source.
• 09/14/98 -- The Year 2000 Bug (Part 1 of 5)
  A problem? Yes. Armageddon? Probably not. Read this first of five articles on the Y2K problem.
• 09/11/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  All the News That Discomfits to Print
• 09/11/98 -- Intel Q3 Revenue Growth
• 09/10/98 -- Living Below Your Means
• 09/04/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Verse, and Worse
• 09/04/98 -- Jaunting Jesters
• 09/03/98 -- August Retail Sales
• 09/01/98 -- How Do You Stop This Thing?
  A Review of Market Circuit Breakers

August

• 08/28/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Crisis and Commitment
• 08/28/98 -- Using The Daily Trouble
• 08/28/98 -- Using The Daily Double
• 08/27/98 -- Advice on a Down Day
  What should Fools do on a down day? Dale Wettlaufer says think, evaluate, and be an investor.
• 08/22/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Fools Converge
• 08/21/98 -- Back to School, Fool!
• 08/14/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Left, Right, Left
• 08/11/98 -- The Gorilla Game
• 08/07/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Anniversary, Shmanniversary
• 08/06/98 -- July Retail Sales
• 08/04/98 -- Motley Fool Online Anniversary Special

July

• 07/31/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Saving Grace
• 07/29/98 -- Lotteries? Just say no!
• 07/28/98 -- The Internet Dynamic
  Slippery When Online
• 07/28/98 -- Bell Atlantic to Merge with GTE
  Telecom powerhouses make the connection.
• 07/24/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Dodgers Win!
• 07/20/98 -- Midyear Market Review
  Our review of the ten biggest winners and losers of the year.
• 07/17/98 -- Notes from a Fool
  Wisdom -- A Primer
• 07/14/98 -- Nasdaq's NODES Could Transform the Market
  Find out how Nasdaq's proposed order and execution system could transform the market.
• 07/10/98 -- Notes from a Fool
• 07/09/98 -- June Retail Sales
• 07/07/98 -- IPO Shenanigans
  Not every company looking to go public follows the well-traveled path.
• 07/06/98 -- Saks and Proffitt's to Merge
• 07/02/98 -- Declare your financial independence!
  Take control of your finances now and let this be your Independence Day.
• 07/02/98 -- Notes from a Fool

June

• 06/30/98 -- SOS Update!
  Update on The Fool's Fight Against Hunger by Share Our Strength
• 06/29/98 -- The More Things Change
• 06/26/98 -- Notes from a Fool
• 06/24/98 -- Four Fools speak out
  Bill Gates, his company, and its business practices in Opinions on Microsoft.
• 06/24/98 -- AT&T to Acquire Tele-Communications Inc.
• 06/19/98 -- Notes from a Fool
• 06/17/98 -- Stocks for Dad
• 06/15/98 -- Ask The Headhunter
  When you're interviewing for a new job, your competition isn't who you think it is.
• 06/12/98 -- Notes from a Fool
• 06/04/98 -- May Retail Sales

May

• 05/21/98 -- How Lucky Do You Feel?
• 05/18/98 -- Netscape Playing Catch-up
  The once-mighty Netscape is now struggling to keep up with its industry. Jim Surowiecki takes a closer look in Netscape Playing Catch-Up
• 05/15/98 -- Online Investment Clubs
• 05/08/98 -- Stock Talk
  EntreMed CEO John Holaday talks about cancer cures and biotech investing in a Motley Fool interview.
• 05/07/98 -- Stocks for Mom
  Continuing an annual tradition, the Motley Fool pays homage to moms around the world.
• 05/07/98 -- April Retail Sales

April

• 04/22/98 -- Iomega Contest Winners
  Find out who won the Iomega CEO contest and read some of the great post that the Fool received.
• 04/21/98 -- Microsoft Versus the World
  It sometimes seems like Microsoft is a lone soul fighting the entire world. In this special feature, Jim Surowiecki investigates the company and antitrust law.
• 04/14/98 -- The Beardstown Blunder
  Everyone seems to have an opinion about the Beardstown Ladies' error, including us Fools.
• 04/09/98 -- Is Mac Back?
  McDonald's may not have the tastiest food out there, but it has something. Jim Surowiecki takes a closer look at the Golden Arches.
• 04/09/98 -- March Retail Sales
• 04/07/98 -- Iomega Hiring...
  Iomega is in the market for a new CEO and it could very well be you. Tell us what you'd do as CEO and you might win a $2000 brokerage account from Web Street Securities.
  Contest ends Monday, April 13, 1998
• 04/02/98 -- 1998 April Fools Special

March

• 03/24/98 -- The Trouble With Nike
  The recent high-flyer has hit a bit of a bump. Jim Surowiecki investigates.
• 03/12/98 -- Gap: A Closer Look
  The Fool's own Yi-Hsin Chang takes a closer look at The Gap.
• 03/05/98 -- February Retail Sales
• 03/05/98 -- Intel Revenue Warning
  Wednesday's revenue warning sent Intel down sharply in after-hours trading.

February

• 02/26/98 -- The Fool in Slate
  Airline Deregulation's Fair-Weather Friends The last thing the major airlines want is real competition.
• 02/24/98 -- G-Man & the Fed
  Who is Alan Greenspan, and why do the markets hang on his every word?
• 02/19/98 -- The Fool in Slate
  What Psychic Friends Didn't See...The downfall of the Psychic Friends Network: what Dionne and her friends didn't see.
• 02/12/98 -- The Fool in Slate
  Amassing media properties doesn't build value--especially when the entertainment field itself is in decline.
• 02/12/98 -- Stocks Fools Love
  Fools share the stocks that are closest to their hearts.
• 02/09/98 -- Changes at AOL
  Internet service provider will raise prices and reposition management.
• 02/06/98 -- The Fool in Slate
  The Taming of the Barbarians...How a rapacious leveraged-buyout firm became a positive force in the corporate economy.
• 02/05/98 -- January 1998 Retail Sales

January

• 01/30/98 -- The Fool in Slate
  The Commoditization Conundrum It isn't pure competition but the fear of it that drives companies to compete.
• 01/30/98 -- A Thing Called GDP
  Alex Schay explains what GDP is and what it means to Foolish investors.
• 01/22/98 -- Asian About-Face, the Fool in Slate
  Why the Asian tigers' favorite admirers don't love them anymore. -- Motley Fool in Slate.
• 01/15/98 -- The Fool in Slate
  How the unfair and little known practice of "spinning" IPOs hurts investors and causes market inefficiencies.
• 01/08/98 -- December Retail Sales
• 01/06/98 -- Apple Shines at MacWorld
  Apple gains big after announcing an expected Q1 profit.
• 01/02/98 - Jerry Departs
  With Seinfeld in it's last season, the networks should be taking notice. Jim Surowiecki explains in this Fool on the Hill encore performance.
• 12/23/97 -- Best & Worst of 1997
  Find out which stocks won big and which ones did not.