And boom, thousands of pieces of data are being shot at you from every angle.

FORBES: Whoops, I Just Checked In To A Firing Squad

The recovery won't match the boom-bust follies of 1987-92, when rents shot up 40-60% in a year and five years later were falling almost as fast.

ECONOMIST: London office rents

To illustrate that it is baseless, he points to what he considers another great firm unfairly maligned by its critics as arrogant: Drexel Burnham Lambert, a freewheeling investment bank that shot from nowhere to market prominence in the junk-bond boom of the 1980s.

ECONOMIST: The energetic messiah