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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amount of downsizing that freed up a lot of individuals who are now coming back" into the work force. Also, "second wage earners"--primarily wives and husbands--who may not have been counted as unemployed because they were not actively seeking jobs are now being pulled into the job market. Finally, "you have a million legal immigrants [coming] into the U.S. each year." Though it would be too much to hope for a 1999 inflation rate as low as last year's 1.6%, Battipaglia thinks consumer prices will rise only around 2.5% this year and perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Board Of Economists: Wall Street's Ghostbusters | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...does all this mean that the economy and the stock market will roll merrily along to ever greater heights? On that, board opinion divides sharply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Board Of Economists: Wall Street's Ghostbusters | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...says, "the market is roughly at fair value. Stocks are priced about where we think they should be. So I think we have moved from an abnormal period of wonderful returns into a normal period of good returns." Amplifying the thought, Farrell sees the beginning of "a rifle-shot stock- picking environment" in which stock performance varies widely not just by industry group but also among companies in the same industry, based on their individual performances and prospects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Board Of Economists: Wall Street's Ghostbusters | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...give a hoot about The Phantom Menace, yet somewhere deep inside, you suspect it won't be a fulfilling summer without a shot of Ewan McGregor. Witness here, then, the Scotsman's fine turn as Nick Leeson, the British futures trader whose fast-and-loose market executions brought down his employer, Barings, the prominent English bank. The film takes a sympathetic view of Leeson, which is fine; the problem is, it never offers a sense of the man behind the mania. What does come through is that Leeson ate a lot of candy during crises. Cadbury wrappers shouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogue Trader | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...Alda and Gelbart--both profit participants--charged that Fox has exploited M*A*S*H by selling reruns to its local stations and then to its own cable station FX at bargain-basement prices compared with what it charges non-Fox-owned stations. Fox apparently contends it charged fair-market prices. But one source maintains the loss in M*A*S*H money is "tens of millions of dollars," part of it owed to the duo. Gelbart resolved the matter (translation: financial settlement) last month, but Alda is scheduled to go to trial in August. According to his lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Hawkeye Says Fox Has Made a Mess of M*A*S*H | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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