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...whether it's a rousing success or a quagmire, whether terrorists strike again or people begin to feel safe, whether we're deluged with battle video or it unfolds in secret. We may be entering a recession too, which produces a different culture from the optimistic boom times that gave us snarky dotcom ads, boy bands and upscale sitcoms. The last recession saw the rise of downscale TV families on Roseanne and The Simpsons and downscale grunge rock. Might a downturn--and the sight of heroic fire fighters giving their lives in Manhattan--mean a return of the working-class...
...rest of the country is faced by an urgent imperative to think on the scale of Boston’s Big Dig: population growth. In 1940, around the time of the great construction boom of the Roosevelt era, the U.S. population was 132 million, according to the Census Bureau. In 1956, when the last big infrastructure project—the Interstate Highway System—was proposed, the population was 168 million. Today, there are 285 million Americans, twice as many as our infrastructure was built to handle...
...After arriving in the wake of a recession that Clinton had convinced voters was still going on, Rubin pushed through a politically risky fiscal policy that helped produce two terms of low long-term interest rates, miniscule unemployment, and booming economic growth that filled government coffers higher than they?d ever been. Then he led the international effort to keep the Asian crisis contained and the U.S. confident and afloat, and left in the middle of the high-tech boom...
...biggest indicator of Tommy’s bust is the boom over at their fiercest competitor, Pinnochio’s. “As far as business goes, it’s quadrupled since the beginning of the year. Now business is just crazy,” said Ralphie Z., a manager at Pinocchio’s. Ralphie criticizes Tommy’s for never staying true to its Italian roots...
...stock market will pick up by the winter, with a V-shaped economic recovery (steep decline, and steep return) beginning in the first quarter of 2002. Then it?s up to middling growth in the second quarter, better-than-middling in the third, with a full-fledged brand new boom coming to an economy near you by this time next year...