From Boom to Bust and Back Again
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It's been six years, but by one key measure, the marketing communications industry has worked its way back to where it was at the height of the Great Internet Bubble. This would mark a full recovery, and any business growth from here forward would take the industry into new record territory.
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There was an eerie echo of the siren song of the 1990Âs economic boom on Wall Street this week.
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Retiring baby boomers and the weak U.S. dollar are creating job opportunities in some surprising sectors.
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Most of them after the recession ended
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The region's booming growth has counterbalanced trouble elsewhere. But the long dry spell is taking a toll.
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After a rough year, the financial sector overindulges.
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A US construction boom in office towers, retail space, and warehouses contrasts the dormant housing market.
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How do you revive flagging growth and thinning margins? Sell more razor blades!
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With recession looming, there are pitfalls and opportunities.
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Individual investors are struggling to find a balanced approach at an unreliable time for the market.
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Bigger is better -- at least right now. Here's a smart way to play the large-cap bounce-back.
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Dude, where&#39;s my boom? That&#39;s a question a lot of Hous- tonians are asking as oil crowds the $50-a-barrel mark. Where&#39;s the frenetic hiring as oil companies staff up for the good times?
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The last few years have been a banner time for those inclined to play penny stocks, if only because there are so many of them.
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Market-focused Wall Street banks explode.
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In the early 1980s, Sears and Kmart were American retail giants, with gobs of money, huge portfolios of real estate and loyal customer bases that should have made them fast-growing fulfillers of Americans&#39; insatiable demand for more stuff.
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Don't let cyclicality rough up your returns.
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Fred Wilson thinks so. And I agree. The reason the tech sector runs in cycles of euphoric booms and deep busts is that there is little support for long-term investment in tech. The new concepts that will fuel the next boom cycle are already here, but there isn't enough money flowing into developing them. The ideas that are getting investment are more and more derivative of the original idea that fueled the boom cycle that is now (likely) coming to an end. If you look back at the last two busts, there was one in the early 90s when the software boom had run out of juice, and then in the early 00s when the web boom had run its course. In both cases, the seeds of the next boom were already planted, but the investors weren't pushing money in their direction. The savior after the early 90s bust was the web, and the second was what they call Web 2.0, which is a really lame way to describe the networked creative environment, what I called the Two-Way Web. I'm going to be in NY in October, and I hope to meet with Fred and other investors to talk about how we can soften the busts and enhance the booms.