Word: manias
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...Indeed, to some the Hong Kong market's current China mania is eerily reminiscent of the territory's short-lived dotcom boom of 2000, when investors queued for hours to snatch up order forms for shares of Internet ventures, only to see their acquisitions turn to dross when the bubble popped. These days, the object of desire has changed, with investors equally convinced that the China boom is a sure thing. The index for "H shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland companies are called, spiked 152% in 2003. Now that investors are back, Chinese companies are rushing...
...With so many new companies coming to market, cynics wonder if this mania will?like other investment manias?end in misery. Already, there are ominous signs of irrational exuberance. For example, China Green earned just $31 million in revenues and $14 million in profits in its last fiscal year from its distinctly unsexy business of growing cabbages and other produce and selling packaged vegetables such as boiled corn. Yet Hong Kong retail investors put in orders for nearly $4 billion of its stock, acting as if this tiny firm with about 150 employees is destined to become a global titan...
...tentacle-like axons, these nerve cells distribute dopamine to many brain regions, including the caudate nucleus. And as this sprinkler system sends dopamine to various parts of the brain, it produces focused attention as well as fierce energy, concentrated motivation to attain a reward, and feelings of elation--even mania--the core feelings of romantic love...
...those letters you'll get about how parents medicate rather than discipline or love their kids, I have to write. My son, 13, is on five different medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity and bipolar disorder. The entire family has suffered through his bouts of suicidal thought, violence and mania. Although I am not entirely comfortable with having him on medication, it is the only thing that has worked. There may be another approach out there, but right now my son and the effects of his illness on the entire family have so sapped my energy, emotion and time that...
...beside the creative chants, pep band tunes and unbridled puck mania that will surely envelop the sellout crowd—-announced at 3,836, though it will feel like twice that—there will be one element conspicuously absent...