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...people are obsessed with home values, in much the same way they were with tech stocks four years ago. That's clear in a flood of new books, such as Ron LeGrand's How to Be a Quick Turn Real Estate Millionaire, Robert Allen's Nothing Down for the 2000s and Mark Weiss's Real Estate Flipping...
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...rooms like the inhabitants of an ideal but real fete champetre within four walls: New York's high bohemia, in mutual recognition. In it, children are rarely seen and subliterates are never heard. The fear, disgust and boredom that are the axial coordinates of American urban life in the 2000s do not appear. People are not afraid of growing older. Ripeness is all. They have not become depressed helots to the culture of ignorant mall rats with Dolby stereos. Nobody has heard of Madonna, let alone Donald Trump or Osama bin Laden. No one has started bleating about elitism...
...distortions and excesses, and the economy was already slowing down. Sept. 11 just accelerated the trend. The attacks gave a license to the private sector to restructure ? firing people, closing down divisions, retrenching from overseas operations ? more quickly and drastically. Sept. 11 may be to the 2000s what the junk bonds and leveraged buyouts were for the 1980s. Companies will clean up their acts and become leaner and more competitive...
Seen from the 2000s, our musical secession was just another facet of the secession of an entire group of Americans that declares itself a nation--different, cooler, better--through its brands: Maglite, Volvo, Apple. Alternative consumption, if you will. Is it any surprise that this market includes people who, as teenagers, were combing record bins for 12-in., imported Depeche Mode singles--pricey, sure, for just a few minutes of music, but of such higher quality...