At these rates, GDP is tipped to fall to 1994 levels by mid-2001 - seven lost years.

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By mid-2001 Google was profitable, employed several hundred people and was seeing traffic grow 20% every month.

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By mid-2001 the dotcom bubble had burst and Arzoo had folded.

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The eight, including Robert Karofsky , Morgan's U.S. head of cash equity trading, are jumping ship after Morgan Stanley's equities group posted the best revenues since mid-2001, driven by success in Morgan's prime brokerage group.

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