Word: techs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...India has important manufacturing, important finance, important outsourcing, important hi-tech. It also has an important government,” Vietor said...
...years ago, the galloping stock market promised to put a Hummer in every garage and lower the retirement age to 37. Today, with real estate prices soaring, refinances booming and mortgage rates skimming bottom, Americans look at their homes rather than their tech stocks as gold-stuffed pinatas aching to be whacked. "People are watching their home values," says Burton Jablin, president of home-and-garden network HGTV, "like they used to watch their 401(k)s." Call it a testament to the resilience of the American Dream, or at least the American Pipe Dream. The get-rich-quick fantasy...
...trust the water you drink? Marc Edwards, a Virginia Tech civil-engineering professor and water-corrosion expert, is determined to answer that question. In March 2003 he was working on a pinhole leak in the plumbing of a private home in Washington when he heard talk of elevated lead levels in the local water. He decided to test some samples, and the results shocked him. "One sample was so high it was off the scale...
...Profits are recovering, and that will lead to more spending and more employment. Inventories are really low. Our view is that getting inventories back up to a normal level would add as much as 1 percentage point to GDP growth. We think it's important to disaggregate between tech stocks and everything else. If you hadn't been through a tech bubble, you'd think you were...
MUHLENKAMP: We know some people who regret buying tech stocks. We don't know anybody who regrets putting money in their home. If mortgage rates got to 7%, it would make a dent. But rates now are at 5.5% or so, and long-term studies show that this is a normal mortgage rate. We don't expect housing starts to keep growing. But the publicly traded builders are taking market share from the neighborhood man with a hammer. That has become their edge, and these are companies that sell for nine times earnings...