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...spirit endured through the '90s and the 2000s, all the way until the fall of 2008, like an awesome winning streak in Vegas that went on and on and on. American-style capitalism triumphed, and thanks to FedEx and the Web, delayed gratification itself came to seem quaint and unnecessary. So what if every year since the turn of the century the U.S. economy grew more slowly than the global economy? Stuff at Wal-Mart and Costco and money itself stayed supercheap! Even 9/11, which supposedly "changed everything," and the resulting Iraqi debacle came to seem like mere bumps...
...years, but it didn’t budge; double-digit unemployment continued until World War II. Applying the lessons of the 1920s to the 1930s, the policy wonks failed to consider other solutions. Today, Obama’s policymakers are applying the lessons of the 1990s to the 2000s. And they expect success...
...based in Rhode Island. Amica seemed to be doing everything right: it boasts an on-site fitness center at its headquarters. It pays toward Weight Watchers and smoking-cessation help, gives gift cards to reward proper prenatal care and offers free flu shots each year. Still, in the mid-2000s, about 7% of the company's insured population, including roughly 3,100 employees and their dependents, had diabetes. "We manage risk. That's our core business," says Scott Boyd, Amica's director of compensation and benefits. But diabetes-related claims from Amica employees had doubled in four years. "We thought...
...growing list of statins' unexpected benefits. Initially the drugs were designed to inhibit the liver's ability to make cholesterol, but it turned out that they not only lowered LDL, but raised levels of HDL, or good cholesterol, in the blood as well. In the early 2000s, researchers reported that statins also reduced inflammation, a process that appears to contribute to the rupture of unstable plaques in the heart vessels, which triggers heart attack...
UPMIFA was originally drafted following the collapse of the “dot-com bubble” in the early 2000s, Kerr said. Newly wealthy individuals transferred funds to foundations, only to see the value of these gifts plummet with the stock market—thereby rendering them unusable. The current economic crisis is in some ways a “repeat of the doc-com bust, but more widely spread,” Kerr said...