Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...soiling diapers. But Alison Gopnik says it's high time that babies got some respect. In her new book, The Philosophical Baby, the University of California, Berkeley, psychologist says modern research is revolutionizing our understanding of the first years of life, revealing early childhood to be a frenzied period of intellectual, emotional and moral development. "Any child will put the most productive scientist to shame," she writes. Gopnik spoke with TIME about the origins of creativity, the "boondoggle" of educational toys and discerning right and wrong during this uniquely fertile period of life...
...relations with U.S. were at [their] worst in the nineties, during the Clinton administration. This is the period when we were bombed by U.S. missiles, sanctions were placed on us and Sudan was placed on the State Sponsors of Terror list. We think that the mistakes committed by the Republican administration cost the United States dearly, with losses in the lives of members of the armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a dire economic situation. Then with the slogan of "change" brought on by the Democrats and President Obama, we were not very optimistic...
...also expect we'll get some surprises on the business side. Businesses overreacted to the severity of the recession - they cut capital spending, they cut advertising, they cut employment very, very dramatically. They overcut. In the next six months, we are going to be in a period where businesses hire back aggressively and spend on capital equipment and advertising and all those things very aggressively. (See 10 big recession surprises...
...dollars sitting on the sidelines that will come in, pushing the market higher. Do you agree? We've been through a secular bear market that really began in 2000. Adjusted for inflation, the S&P 500 is down 65% since then. We've been through the worst 10-year period of stock returns on the S&P in the history of American equities. But I think we saw the bottom of the secular bear market [at the March lows]. My view is that the money is coming back...
...Just because we made the bottom of a secular bear market doesn't mean we're in a new bull market. The history is that when you make the bottom of a secular bear market, in almost every situation, there has been a huge rally followed by a long period of churning back and forth in a big, broad trading range, anywhere from three to - in the case of Japan - 18 to 20 years. As for the rally, the usual rebound rally after one of these things is 71% over 17 months. The current rally in the U.S. and Europe...