During the go-go stock market of the 1990s, a privately held tech company seemed downright strange.
Bonds, particularly high-yield bonds, and dividend stocks have become the go-go investments of the era.
Over 20 years, which counts the go-go 1990s, its lead is narrower: 8.4% versus 8.3%.
Since the go-go days of the late 1990s, trading volumes have fallen by two-thirds.
During the go-go years building up to the so-called mortgage crisis, they were arrogance personified.
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His father-in-law happened to be Fred Alger, the go-go fund manager of 1960s fame.
But a swift return to the go-go days of the late 1990s is inconceivable.
Though America's stockmarkets are quiet compared with the go-go 1990s, its housing market looks decidedly frothy.
That core value--promoting health--got lost in the go-go '80s and '90s, reduced, it seems, to cynical sloganeering.
In the go-go years before the credit crunch, that left it growing more slowly than many rivals.
Personal communications devices lend themselves well to the go-go consumeristic and commerce-centric lifestyle.
Flush with cash in the go-go 1990s, many states widened eligibility for Medicaid and extended the services it would provide.
Humorous ads were popular in the go-go 1980s but dropped off the screen in the early 1990s as the economy sputtered.
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He later co-founded the influential Sire Records label, discovered Blondie at CBGB and produced records for the Go-Go's, Link Wray and others.
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Banks that avoided the stampede into credit in the go-go years grumble, with some justice, that they were punished for their conservatism.
In a sense you might go as far as to call higher yielding stocks like Abbott, the Go-Go stocks of the current decade.
As chief executive of venerable growth manager Fred Alger Management, Chung inherited a style that founder Fred Alger developed in the go-go Sixties.
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So reform-wise, nothing happened to our monetary system in the go-go years of the 1980s and 1990s (outside of making celebrities of Fed chairmen).
And given all the stores that are still closing doors, it's clear that some of the excess capacity from the go-go years is still around.
Commercial and industrial loans are up at an annual rate of 15.3% so far this year, a level of growth not seen since the go-go Nineties.
While there is still some debate, experts increasingly agree that most spending declines through retirement, as people transition from the "go-go" to the "slow-go" to the "no-go" years.
Exelon may not be sitting quite as pretty as it was during the go-go days of 2007 and early 2008, but revenue and earnings are coming back nicely.
It happened again with conglomerates in the go-go years of the 1960s, and with gold and silver in 1980 when these two precious metals fetched prices that have never been seen since.
Sacyr was one of a trio of big Spanish construction companies that grabbed stakes in the country's biggest energy firms in the go-go days of 2006, near the height of Spain's property bubble.
Problems began to mount in the twilight of the go-go 1960s when a rash of notorious bankruptcies and frauds shook the public's confidence in certified public accountancy: Penn Central, National Student Marketing, Equity Funding, Stirling Homex.
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Once concerned about what ARM-like prices would do to its business model, Intel appears to have seen the Post-PC light: Traditional PCs will continue to make technical progress, but the go-go days of ever-increasing volumes are gone.
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During the real-estate boom years in Manhattan, Michael Shvo was the most visible of the go-go brokers, a brash 30-something squiring customers in his limousine, a cellphone in each ear, hosting celebrity parties and creating ever-more extravagant sales campaigns for new condominiums.
With venture capital tighter this year than the prior go-go cycles, the tides have turned once again in this cyclical business.
Now that the merger has been given the go-ahead, disgruntled investors are likely to go to the non-executive directors of the combined company and demand a change of management.
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