Stock Market Party
- Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), American lawyer
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The end of 2020 has me looking back. I started writing the letters that later became
Thoughts from the Frontline back in the late 1990s. Similar to COVID-19 today, we had a giant macro issue then, too: Y2K. It’s hard to believe now how frightened some people were. But as I expected, the big day came and the world didn’t end.
Another similarity is the stock market was rising like a rocket. This newfangled “Internet thing had people super-excited, and rightly so. It was a world-changing paradigm shift. Unfortunately, some of the stocks born in that incredible boom weren’t world-changing paradigms at all. The market party ended, just as this one will, but went on far longer than almost anyone (including me) expected.
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), American lawyer
The end of 2020 has me looking back. I started writing the letters that later became
Thoughts from the Frontline back in the late 1990s. Similar to COVID-19 today, we had a giant macro issue then, too: Y2K. It’s hard to believe now how frightened some people were. But as I expected, the big day came and the world didn’t end.
Another similarity is the stock market was rising like a rocket. This newfangled “Internet” thing had people super-excited, and rightly so. It was a world-changing paradigm shift. Unfortunately, some of the stocks born in that incredible boom weren’t world-changing paradigms at all. The market party ended, just as this one will, but went on far longer than almost anyone (including me) expected.
Studio Cast Recording of GABRIEL – a new two-act Christmas musical
December 11, 2020 Last updated:
December 11, 2020
There are, when one considers the usual round of nativity plays and Christmas concerts that roll around each year, only so many ways to tell the Christmas story. There’s a line in the liturgy of the King’s College Chapel, Cambridge service at Christmas, Nine Lessons and Carols, that makes me smile. The congregation is invited to “
prepare ourselves to hear again the message of the angels” – that is to say it’s a case of, as Yogi Berra apparently put it, déjà vu all over again.
service, one civilian aircraft was in the skies above the united states. bill: aircraft had been grounded across the country at that point. one civilian aircraft. bearing billy graham from north carolina to washington, d.c. and tim and matt, i can t remember which one it was but they were literally on an open line listening to the communications to make certain that graham s aircraft was handed off from air traffic controller to air traffic controller and not impeded in its trip to washington one aircraft, civilian aircraft is in the skies above the united states and it bears billy graham. bill: i can hear how he touched you in your voice, karl? i met him before that and i met him at an event that took place in the big over my shoulder, the texas state capital. in 1995 george w. bush was inaugurated as governor and billy graham had played an important role in bringing him to christ and billy graham
falls church, virginia. how did this get to be such a mess? reporter: jenna, the current federal approach to transportation was basically established in 1956, long before these hot lanes were being erected on the capitol belt weigh. it didn t even exist then. and in virginia, over my shoulder, the booming met rop lis, before that, it was basically a farm field. the department of transportation has since grown and grown to the point where it involves five doc agency, 6000 employees, 100 different programs, each with their own punting streams, for highways, transit, rail and safety. let me cut through the bureaucracy a little bit to give you real-life examples of the confusion. in 2009, the government purchased almost $2 billion on car fleets, but some of those fleet managers are required to purchase alternative fuel vehicles. even in those locations where there are no alternative fuels. they are also required to purchase low emissions