Using The Web

December, 1998

One question I'm asked more than any other is: Can you really find all that stuff you write about just by searching the Web? To which I answer, yes, if you know where to look.If you looked at financial data on the Web, you could have seen that Livent, the Toronto-based producer of live theatrical entertainment, was riddled with accounting problems that would cause its stock to crash. In the summer of 1998 it did crash, falling by nearly 50 percent in value on news that the company's board had su...