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After the stock-market crash of 2001 and 2002, the Fed worried that inflation was so low it might turn into deflation. So it cut short-term rates even further, reducing them to 1% in 2003, while the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond--a key benchmark of long-term rates--dropped as low as 3.13%. The result: a real estate boom, as ultra-low mortgage rates made houses affordable at ever higher prices. Cash from refinancings and home-equity loans also kept consumer spending strong. By mid-2004, confident that deflation was out of the picture...
...strong, times are still good for business in general. Recent jitters in the riskier parts of the bond and loan markets may slow the private-equity boom (private-equity firms use borrowed money to purchase the likes of Chrysler and Hilton) but don't necessarily presage a crash. The Federal Government, which gets an ever higher percentage of its revenue from the minority of taxpayers who are profiting from the global boom, is making out O.K. as well. But the era of easy money, when ordinary Americans could count on borrowing their way out of trouble, looks to be over...
...Many analysts believe China's A-share market-stocks priced in renminbi that are available almost exclusively to mainland investors-is experiencing a classic bubble and is destined to crash. Certainly it isn't hard to find evidence to support this conclusion. The 1990s U.S. technology and dotcom bubble saw an explosion of IPOs that peaked in 1999, when companies raised $63.1 billion (still a U.S. record). The bubble burst the following year. China's shares, which now trade on average at about 45 times next year's earnings estimates, are definitely expensive. But there are differences between China...
...Bruguiere's lasting legacy will doubtless be his recognition of the jihadist terror threat in the early 1990s, and his frequently controversial methods of battling it. After France became the first European nation targeted by jihadist attacks - a thwarted 1994 attempt to crash a fuel-filled airliner into central Paris; and a series of bombings in 1995-96, all orchestrated by Algeria's Armed Islamic Group - Bruguiere led French security services in identifying the nature, structure, and methods of jihadist terror networks, then moving to uproot and destroy them. "It was a very unique situation, because we were having...