Word: term
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most earthlings are less afraid than annoyed; they see the illegal aliens as just another class of lowlife troublemakers. Because they also look like creepy crustaceans, they are slapped with the derisive term prawns. They possess weapons no human can fire, but a gang of Nigerian thugs buys up most of the stash anyway, while supplying the creatures with women who'll engage in interspecies prostitution. When local resentment reaches its boiling point, a private firm gets a government contract to cattle-herd the furriners to a new settlement, far from the city. To enforce this transgalactic apartheid, the head...
Investor Jim Rogers frequently says on television that we are in a long-term bull market in commodities and that this is the asset class that is really going to perform. Do you agree? I'm agnostic about it. I can see the validity of the argument, that it is different this time in commodities, but I don't have a strong conviction about...
Sort of like the '60s and '70s, when the stock market really went nowhere. Is that what we might be headed for longer term? Yes, exactly. That bull market really peaked in 1965 or 1966 and then it churned back and forth - and inflation ravaged it, even though the nominal prices didn't collapse as much. But the Dow Jones average didn't set a new high until...
...dawn of a major bull market, akin to 1982 in the U.S.? I would characterize it as being more similar to the U.S. in 1982. And China is still cheap. It isn't as cheap as it was four months ago, but that was the bottom of a long-term bear market, so I still think it looks really good...
...origins of the term "Big Bang" are surprising, given that it was coined by a scientist who disagreed with the theory...