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With optimism about the job market of recent years now muted, Harvard students said they are noticing the slowed economy??s effects on their own career prospects...
...would like to comment on Robin S. Lee’s “Postcard from San Francisco: The New New Economy?? (Opinion, Aug. 10). I moved to San Francisco a year ago—probably the worst time to come here in recent years. No one knew that the dot-com bubble was about to burst, so workers were still flocking here to grab a piece of the pie, and landlords had a field day charging exorbitant rents for ordinary apartments...
...because that’s not that important. It was printed last October, and was maybe a testament to the high-flying optimism that had gripped Silicon Valley and Wall Street for four years. Or maybe it was a brand of “new economy?? gospel. Or, heck, maybe it was for the 15 minutes of fame in the A section of the Wall Street Journal...
...Economy??, with a capital N and E (not to be mistaken for any old “new” economy, mind you), was coined a few years ago to describe the world of the late 90s and early 2000—a world of near-zero inflation, ultra-low unemployment and unparalleled and seemingly unstoppable growth. It was a world changed dramatically by the rapid, almost dizzying pace of technological innovation, jump-started by the maturation of the Internet and the rise of global communications. From these initial seeds of growth and promise came a vision...
...live in the city, there are worse things to worry about than the civil war. The economy??s been shot and everyone’s fallen on hard times...