Sentences with phrase «late 1990s»

An institute bears his name, two of his best books were re-issued in the late 1990s, Liberty Fund symposiarchs have dined out handsomely on him, and politicians (ever attuned to a rising market) have ransacked his work for justification of their various Third Ways and Compassionate Conservatisms.

He was tried in the late 1990s but the jury could not decide on a verdict, sparking a retrial which ended in an acquittal, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

During a major uphe - aval in Ind - onesia in the late 1990s, s - ex-cra-zed Muslim men ga - ng - ra - p - ed dozens of Chinese women in shops, homes and even in the streets, shouting in Arabic, «All - a-hu A-kbar!»

Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur» an.

From the late 1990s to early 2000s, Leon was at the forefront of China's first generation of Internet - focused companies.

Since the late 1990s, the stock of Canadian direct investment abroad has been greater than the stock of FDI in Canada, indicating that Canadian firms are using foreign direct investment to build global value chains and serve customers in other countries.

High valuations and high volatility did coexist in the late 1990s, but that did not end well.

As you can see in the chart above, the VIX index moved steadily higher as the market approached the peak of the late 1990s technology bubble, calmed down during the steady growth period of 2003 - 2007, then spiked during the 2008 credit crisis and in the latter half of 2011.

Pay climbed at a 4 percent annual clip in the late 1990s, for example, and yet core inflation barely rose.

Chinese companies raised billions of dollars by selling shares to American investors since the late 1990s.

Ditto for the globalization of production and the other deflationary forces we've been discussing since we wrote two books on deflation in the late 1990s, Deflation: Why it's coming, whether it's good or bad, and how it will affect your investments, business and personal affairs (1998) and Deflation: How to survive and thrive in the coming wave of deflation (1999).

With its ability to validate all transactions in an immutable electronic ledger, the blockchain has the potential to be as disruptive as Amazon was in the late 1990s.

They are at an all time high, around two - and - a-half times higher in nominal terms than they were during the late 1990s, our last real boom.

The Internet stock bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s provides an example of how a central bank's easy money policy can encourage unwise investments.

Today, we face another mindboggling conundrum with equally significant investment implications: Why are wages still stagnant, when jobs are being created at the fastest pace since the late 1990s?

Just as the technology, media and telecom convergence inflated the dot - com bubble in the late 1990s, the likes of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google — the FANGs — accelerated the most recent run - up in US equities.

Expensive stocks can always become more expensive, the late 1990s are a testament to that, the late 1920s etc..

He completed his internal medicine (primary care) medical residency at Harvard, and maintained his primary care medical practice at MIT until the late 1990s.

Cryptocurrency supporters today are saying the same thing I heard about the Internet in the late 1990s: There is a new economy and traditional valuation methods don't apply any more.

In the case of Asia, credit ratings for those countries hardest hit by the financial crisis of the late 1990s still remain below the ratings recorded immediately prior to the crisis (Table 6).

The high point for all secular bulls had also been fairly similar, until the late 1990s.

When the technology bubble inflated in the late 1990s, the ETF industry was a negligible fraction of its current size.

While no one knows for certain, we do know that the over 1600 % price increase year - to - date surpasses many other previous bubbles, such as the dot - com bubble of the late 1990s, and the recent U.S. housing market bubble.

Studies of periods of tight labour markets like the late 1990s and 1960s make it clear that the best social programme for disadvantaged workers is an economy where employers are struggling to fill vacancies.

Investors are cautioned against buying Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT)'s stock after suffering its worst trading day since the late 1990s, according to BMO.

In part, this outcome reflects the continuing headwinds arising from the unwinding of the excesses of the late 1990s and the reduced appetite for risk by executives following the corporate governance scandals.

It has diminished further to Benelux proportions after the rouble's 10 percent crash this week, the steepest fall since the late 1990s.

This went from growing at 10 per cent or more a year during the late 1990s, to falling at that pace when the economy went into recession — a very sharp reversal.

But this time, the super secular bull of the late 1990s ended nearly twice as high — it was a major bubble.

Between 1989 and the late 1990s, the economic output of the former Soviet Union declined by a nearly unimaginable 40 %, resulting in terrible destruction to personal incomes.

With all that said, there is a bright side to the weakness in emerging markets and commodities for developed markets: a disinflationary stimulus similar to what occurred in the late 1990s and, more recently, since 2011... with the caveat that contagion does not result.

Then there was the «party» in the late 1990s!

So it has taken more than a decade to wear away the effects of the late 1990s extremes.

The increase in the dollar we've seen so far this year is muted compared with the strong dollar episodes of the early 1980s and late 1990s.

Many forecasters were also slow in recognizing that the potential growth rate of the economy had increased in the late 1990s with the advent of new information technologies.

But we were not looking at 6.6 percent returns in the late 1990s, Try 20 percent.

Tema Frank has been helping businesses and organizations market themselves more effectively on the Internet since the late 1990s.

By 1995, he built the enterprise into a $ 50 - million venture, which he sold in the late 1990s before pursuing his passion for real estate and establishing Memphis Invest.

The Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trends seem to be following the path the internet took back in the late 1990s.

There have certainly been periods when the rich, the middle class and the poor all have done well (like the late 1990s), as well as periods when all have done poorly (like the last year).

In the third quarter of 2005, the average new house sold in the United States cost 4.9 times the average household's yearly income, up from 3.9 times in the late 1990s....

In the late 1990s venture capitalists and individual investors were pouring money into internet dot com companies, driving their values sky high.

Meanwhile, the head of investment research at Goldman Sachs reportedly issued a note this week comparing the current market to the «internet bubble of the late 1990s» and suggesting that most cryptocurrencies will likely «trade to zero.»

Before founding LCA in 2010, he developed the Asian private banking platform for Rabobank / Sarasin in the late 1990s and subsequently headed the private banking North Asian operations of ABN AMRO.

«It is impossible to know the extent to which crypto assets may transform the financial infrastructure and whether most new crypto assets are likely to disappear as in past episodes of technological innovation (as many tech companies did during the boom of the late 1990s, for example),» wrote the IMF.

«The credit score model the GSEs essentially require mortgage originators to use for mortgage lending — FICO 4 — is outdated, based on models estimated in the late 1990s.

Within hours of the decision, the University of Washington and Ambry Genetics, a closely held company in Aliso Viejo, California, said they would immediately offer expanded testing that included the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which Myriad has had under patent since the late 1990s.

In my own research, I found that lower - income women's debt - to - wealth ratio doubled from the late 1990s to 2013.

He spent several decades as chief stock market analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co. and had a front - row seat at the go - go markets of the late 1960s, mid-1980s and late 1990s, the brutal bear market of 1973 - 74, and October 1987 crash.

This new reality will certainly come to a shock to those gathering at Preston Manning «s institute on Oct. 22 to watch the Canadian Taxpayers Federation present former Alberta Treasurer Stockwell Day with a «TaxFighter Award» for his role in implementing Canada's first 10 percent flat - rate personal income tax in the late 1990s and early 2000s.