Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...natural, cyclical economic high tide that he merely tried to keep as high as he could for as long as he could -- with considerable success. Wherever credit is due, the Clinton administration has presided over the greatest economic expansion in U.S. history; a 200 percent rise in the stock market; record lows in both unemployment and inflation; and a balanced budget. And don't forget about keeping the worst global economic crisis since the '30s in check and away from U.S. shores. Asked a while back to explain the miracle, the meticulous Rubin put it this way: "It's some...
That's not enough of a difference to justify putting orlistat on the market, says Dr. Jules Hirsch, an obesity expert at Rockefeller University and a member of the FDA advisory panel that evaluated the drug. Hirsch voted against approval. "We're talking about something that will take a little bit of weight off--a little more than a placebo--for a few years," he says, "but that will not make obesity vanish. The question is, How valuable is that...
Most people will never seek a "jumbo" mortgage--one too big to be sold to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, the federally chartered agencies that buy mortgages in the secondary market and virtually guarantee the availability of home loans for working stiffs. The breakpoint is high enough--$240,000 this year--that the higher interest rates on loans of that size afflict only one in five buyers nationwide. And so what? They can afford it, right? Don't be so sure. In today's torrid housing market, prices in some regions are escalating far faster than personal income, shoving more...
...Dedicated day traders have a new way to get hold of shares in those skyrocketing Internet IPOs. Last week Discover Brokerage Direct became the latest online player to offer retail investors a small portion of stock in initial public offerings, before the new issues leap 500% on their market debuts. To participate, you'll need to have a hefty $100,000 in your account, and a hearty appetite for risk--despite the recent mania, most IPOs turn out to be losers...
LUCKY PICKLES All six NHL players with their own foodstuffs made it into the play-offs, and as of Friday all their teams were doing better than expected. Although the company that makes the locally sold products, PLB Sports, wasn't purposely trying to market to pregnant women, we have to wonder why they made pickles and peanut butter...