Some old-economy companies are training managers in the art of benevolence.

That's not just for old-economy companies like Halliburton either.

But a new study suggests that hundreds of old-economy companies may also have caught the backdating bug.

In an old-economy company, there is a lot of depreciation.

Value stocks, generally old-economy companies whose shares look relatively cheap, were expected to reassert themselves.

Or maybe they thought that destruction happened only to old-economy companies.

Nearly half of that rushed into large cap growth funds, which concentrate their investment in what are now called old-economy companies.

Equally threatened are old-economy companies that do not get Web strategies off the ground now.

Today, individuals less successful than my friend wonder whether the old-economy companies they left will take them back once their start-ups collapse.

And their earnings could also be lowered as old-economy companies trim spending plans in light of a slowing economy.