During the dot-com bubble and the recent credit expansion, market institutions that normally acted as a corrective force were giving in to the frenzy instead.
The slightly unconventional ways in which Greenblatt calculates earnings yield and return on capital also involve some good common sense and are particularly interesting given the recent credit crisis.
Some of the more pessimistic commentators see the recent credit excesses as the inevitable consequence of a system based on paper money and call for the return of the gold standard to prevent future crises.
Some of the new Fed-established lending facilities to deal with the recent credit liquidity crisis may become permanent or left in place until the situation improves, but that "we haven't decided yet" about the Fed's discount window's permanence.
During the recent credit expansion, homeowners seeking mortgages to flip homes, as well as Fannie and Freddie with their affordable housing mandate and ensuing interest in securitized sub-prime mortgages, seem to have been the equivalent of the less-sophisticated, day-trading retail investor feeding the dot-com bubble.
We suspect the latter will happen naturally as U.S. consumers respond to the recent recent credit meltdown.
The American Opportunity Tax Credit and the Lifetime Learning Credit were affected by the recent tax deal.
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This is the main reason recent tax credit-driven solutions, such as the New Markets Tax Credit and the Renewable Energy Tax Credit have failed to stimulate the growth in the areas they have targeted.
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The recent expansion of credit to such companies has helped to boost formal employment and shrink the informal economy, especially in Brazil.
This is quite natural, given the recent problems in credit markets.
Paulson has said that most of the regulatory changes he recently announced shouldn't take place until the recent turmoil in the housing and credit markets has been resolved.
More cheap loans are becoming available as the banking sector recovers from the turmoil caused by the credit crisis of recent years.
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Mrs Foster said the reform of credit unions in Northern Ireland would follow the example set by recent changes to credit union regulations in Great Britain.
I'm glad Jason raised the relationship between declining business formation and the credit market, because I'm skeptical that the recent decline he notes is driven primarily by changes in the supply of credit.
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China is in the crosshairs of the credit crisis because its recent gains in prosperity depended on two sources.
The worst, in the early 1980s, saw a peak-to-trough decline in output of 6%, though the more recent recession, caused by the credit crisis, has been worse.
This was one of the reasons the credit rating agencies began their recent spate of downgrades.
Urbi said recently that concerns over shifts in the home-building sector also led to the cancellation of credit lines in recent months, forcing the builder to use cash reserves to cover payments.
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True, they are still licking their wounds after the recent passage of draconian credit-card reforms.
The problem had to do with American mortgage-backed securities, which have been upsetting the credit markets in recent weeks.
Our greater concern, however, is that the recent decline in US credit cards in use might not only have been caused by the recessionary macroeconomic outlook.
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This argument is particularly ludicrous in light of the recent fiasco with CCC credit guarantees provided to Iraq as part of the U.S. program of wooing Saddam Hussein.
Profit reports out this week indicate that while the damage from the recent subprime meltdown and credit crunch is not as bad as feared, recovery is still a ways off.
The disappearing jobs are concentrated in the lower third of the pay range, though the field work was done before the onset of the credit crisis, so it precedes recent job losses in the housing and financial services industries.
Economists trained in the Austrian framework recognised early on that the recent boom was induced by rampant credit and money creation rather than sustainable economic growth, and correctly predicted the inevitable bust.
The U.S. is not the first country in recent years to lose its AAA credit rating and the U.S. can have its credit rating raised back to AAA in the future as well in a similar fashion to what has taken place in other countries.
Worse, our collective recent experience with the credit crisis and the ensuing recession seemed to teach that investing is by its nature a high-risk endeavor, akin to closing your eyes and stepping off the curb at rush hour.
On the face of it, at such a sensitive time for the Palestinians diplomatically, it would seem that they would want to keep their traditional good cop-Fatah, bad cop-Hamas routine going and have Hamas take the credit for the recent attacks.
Citing potential adverse effects on the cost and availability of credit to small business owners, the Federal Reserve concluded in a recent report to Congress that imposing stricter regulations on small business credit cards would do more harm than good.
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The cost of credit has shot up in the wake of recent bankruptcies, putting the viability of many more companies in doubt.
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