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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...real estate collapse a good thing? First, because the collapse of any financial bubble can be interpreted as a morality play: greed gets its comeuppance. Subprime mortgages play the role that used to be played by junk bonds. They represent easy money--too easy, in retrospect. Borrowed money, if it gets out of hand, puts economic history on speed: everything rises faster, then collapses harder. Foolish lenders become the enablers of foolish borrowers. In the 1990s, people came to believe that stock prices would rise forever. They learned differently. And now we are learning differently about real estate as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your House Is Worth Less? Good | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...with help and contacts from his father, a music industry veteran, found a venue and booked his dream band. Then it struck him that, even if they let him run the gig at a venue licensed for alcohol, he still wouldn't be allowed into his own club. In retrospect, Underage might now seem like an inspired bit of marketing, but in reality, says Killcoyne, "I was just really pissed off, so I thought I'd stick the knife in and say over18s weren't allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Underage is All the Rage | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...more of a country flavor with this last album. How do you guys change like that? -Eric R. Bower, Hagerstown, MDWe remain successful by remaining true to who we were. Never was there a time when trends came and we decided to jump on anyone else's bandwagon. In retrospect, that's probably what differentiates us from a lot of our peers. When we grew as a band, we did it naturally, without having a rapper when rap was in fashion, or pretending to be from Seattle when grunge was in fashion or trying to dance like a boy band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jon Bon Jovi | 7/25/2007 | See Source »

...have often wondered whether or not my constantly busy state has prevented me from doing things that I probably should have done. This applies to every facet of my Harvard experience, from academics to my social life. I have often found myself involved in things that, in retrospect, I shouldn’t have committed to—not because I didn’t have the time to do them, but because my penchant for staying busy simply got the better...

Author: By Chrix E. Finne | Title: Much Too Busy | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...retrospect, it was a rebuilding season...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Youth Leads The Way | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

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