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Still, the slowdown seems certain to take a toll on the economy. Housing activity accounted for a full percentage point of last year's 3.5% GDP growth. Psychologically, rising home prices have made homeowners feel wealthier--just as stock prices did in the dotcom boom--boosting consumer confidence and spending on everything from cars to restaurant meals. Those rising prices, along with low borrowing costs, led homeowners to cash out a record $450 billion in home equity in 2005--money pumped into the economy. Rising interest rates have clogged that artery. And each month millions of homeowners have to write...
...because she misses the creep but because she and her lesbian lover need his child-support checks. The case leads March, a former sheriff's investigator with a dead wife and a shadowy past, into a snake pit of betrayal and double dealing--the paranoid underside of the dotcom boom. Spiegelman worked in financial services and software for more than 20 years before taking up fiction. He knows how thin the air is in New York City's office towers and what breathing too much of it does to your soul...
...will reach $91.7 million in 2009, an 80% jump from 2004 levels. The resurrection of online advertising is a welcome payoff for Dare, a pioneering and cutting-edge agency that Collier, the former head of London ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), launched in July 2000. Dare survived the dotcom crash and is now reaping the benefits of widespread broadband penetration. And that's making for competition. Not only have other digital-focused small agencies since opened their doors, but most of the large U.S. and European mega-agencies now have digital ad divisions. Dare's top-drawer clients include...
...bank Morgan Stanley, who for several years has warned that the U.S.'s borrowing and consumption binge will come to a bad end, with consequences that include a likely fall in the value of the dollar. (And this bear doesn't cry wolf--Roach was right in predicting the dotcom crash.) The problems will not have gone away even if the dollar remains buoyant, he said, warning of a "dangerous degree of complacency" among investors. "The weakest link in the global-growth chain in 2006 is the most important link, and that is the American consumer," Roach cautioned...
...maintain and market the resulting data. Thousands of citizens donated blood, and many bought shares in deCODE as well. But those shares, which rose to a high of $65 in a frenzied run-up in 1999 and 2000, plunged to as low as $2 in the collapse of the dotcom bubble. They're around $9 today--and deCODE still hasn't turned a profit. Investors lost a lot of money, and the firm was forced to lay off scores of employees...