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The Recent Period Has Been Marked By A Transformation To An Economy That Is More Productive As Competitive Forces Become Increasingly Intense And New Technologies Raise The Efficiency Of Our Businesses...while These Tendencies Were No Doubt In Train In The "old," Pre-1990s Economy, They Accelerated Over The Past Decade As A Number Of Technologies With Their Roots In The Cumulative Innovations Of The Past Half-century Began To Yield Dramatic Economic Returns.

Excessive Optimism Sows The Seeds Of Its Own Reversal.

And Whatever Their Publicized Angst Over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons Of Mass Destruction,' American And British Authorities Were Also Concerned About Violence In An Area That Harbors A Resource Indispensable For The Functioning Of The Word Economy. I Am Saddened That It Is Politically Inconvenient To Acknowledge What Everyone Knows: The Iraq War Is Largely About Oil.

Without Calling The Overall National Issue A Bubble, It's Pretty Clear That It's An Unsustainable Underlying Pattern.

...our Market System Depends Critically On Trust-trust In The Word Of Our Colleagues And Trust In The Word Of Those With Whom We Do Business.