Word: peaked
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...Nikkei to above the 9000 level for the first time in two months. The boost, however, was short-lived, and the Nikkei continued to drop, after losing 42% in 2008. Now hovering just above 8200, the index is about one-fifth of what it was in 1989 at the peak of Japan's stock-market bubble. (See pictures of scared traders...
...wave swamping bank earnings has moved away from being caused solely by derivatives. LBO loans, commercial real estate, consumer credit cards, and corporate bankruptcies are building and will not peak until the momentum in joblessness and falling GDP stops accelerating. That could take well over a year...
...percent and rising, Obama’s Gallup approval ratings have been surpassed by only two newly elected presidents since FDR: Kennedy approaching the peak of the cold war, and Johnson after Kennedy’s assassination. “That’s the sort of rating you see when the public rallies around a leader after a national disaster,” CNN analyst Bill Schneider remarked last month. Put another way, Americans are seeing a savior where they should see a Democrat...
...Sasaki argues that, compared with a period in the mid-1990s when the yen hit a postwar peak against the dollar, today's negative impact on the Japanese economy is "not that large." That's because the U.S. over the past decade has seen higher inflation than Japan, where prices have been relatively flat for many years. To have the same effect as the peak in 1995 - when the exchange rate reached 79.75 yen to the dollar - Japan's currency would have to soar to 48 to the dollar, he says. "If we think about the inflation-rate differentials...
...says. "It goes up and down. You don't try to get rid of it, but accept it and let it pass." People tend to think that urges will escalate infinitely if they don't yield to them - but in fact, like a wave, they rise to a peak and then fall. That is, even if you don't give in, the urge dissipates...