Word: boom
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...reflection of ideology run amok and a twisted reading of recent history. Yes, the economy began to pick up when Ronald Reagan offered his famous 1981 tax-reduction plan, but it continued to grow when Reagan raised taxes in 1982 and '83. And how to explain the economic boom of the 1990s? Bill Clinton's tax increases for the wealthy, which were smaller proportionally than Reagan's, certainly didn't seem to dampen the irrational exuberance of the wealthy...
...gloom amid boom is a comment more on our national mood swings than on the state of our economy or scientific culture. If we can just keep our heads, take our meds and resist fear itself, we'll do just fine...
...Homebuilder stocks account for 20% of his portfolio, and the only selling he?s doing is to prevent housing from swamping his other holdings as prices shoot higher. This is remarkable in light of indisputable evidence that the housing boom is at last slowing. Existing home sales plunged 5.7% in December and the median home price edged 1.9% lower, the government recently reported...
...employment trends can be partially attributed to the retirement of baby-boom professors, said Kloppenberg, who is also the Kemper professor of American history and a Harvard College professor...
...Though that deal ultimately failed, Horie's ability to turn his tiny company into a behemoth with a market value as high as $8 billion helped spark a broader M&A boom. Rivals in Japan's go-go Internet industry learned that they too could grow by gobbling up corporate minnows. "A lot of people have followed the Livedoor model," says Tom Sato, founder of Tokyo IPO, a financial-information website. Softbank has executed 140 mergers or acquisitions; Rakuten, Japan's leading online-shopping site, has executed 55 of them; Yahoo! Japan has done 24. Although Japan still accounts...