Word: slowdowns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Committee on Wednesday morning: Down the road, productivity will be back up. The New Economy will be fine, and in fact new inventory technologies mean it bounces back faster these days than it used to. But it still takes time for businesses and consumers alike to adjust to a slowdown that hits this hard and this fast, and "for the period ahead, downside risks predominate...
...tech investors who got rich in 1999 and early 2000 are the ones who have been keeping the economy going this long, and the crash last spring and summer, I think, presaged the sharpness of the slowdown we're seeing now. So Greenspan has to believe that any recovery has to include some rebound in the NASDAQ if it's going to stick...
...even when they aren't the ones who are actively downloading. The same holds true for hosting a website or FTP server. Since bandwidth is a finite resource, it acts in many ways like a highway. Increases in traffic lead to congestion, which in turn leads to a general slowdown and lots of angry users...
...very ugly spot, and the mixed-signals CPI report only reinforces it. The biggest problem out there is a lack of clarity on how far this slowdown is going to go, and what it's going to look like. There's a real lack of vision as to what first-quarter earnings will be like - when even the CEOs say they don't know, then everybody's in the dark. And the response from the Street is, sell 'em and see what happens...
...hoped Bush would not turn out to be as stupid as he seems," said Naim. In addition to Bush's mandate problems, a sharply divided U.S. Congress could make it difficult for Washington to intervene quickly if, say, Argentina's economy crumpled again. "The fear is not of a slowdown, but that a slowdown will become worse because of slow thinking," said Naim. It doesn't help that some of Bush's closest advisers are critics of the International Monetary Fund--though Naim doubted that the U.S. would stand aside and countenance any financial contagion from a regional economic crash...