Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982–2004

by Maggie Mahar

Coca-Cola,

bullishness

commissions,

commodities,

market cycles (1937–99),

price cuts,

productivity and, 255–57 See also Internet

Congress,

Great Bull Market aftermath and,

Greenspan testimony,

Safe Harbor Provision,

Consumer Price Index,

consumers,

AOL advertising

disinflation era

consumer spending,

as Bush economic recovery basis,

consumer stocks,

conventional wisdom,

on bear market beginning,

on bull market,

“creative” accounting,

on index funds,

on stock outperformance of bonds,

See also buy-and-hold strategy

balance sheets,

bull market investments,

Bush reform speech,

capital spending and,

debt defaults, 462n.36 debt increase, 330 debt of 1980s, 85

dividend payments

401(k)s and,

high interest rates and,

high-yield junk bonds and,

inflation and,

IPO frenzy and,

mergers and, 53 misrepresentations

pension plan rethinking,

“pricing power” loss,

profits reports,

restructuring effects,

stock valuation and,

Washington lobbyists and,

Corrections Corporation of America,

CPI. See Consumer Price Index

crash of 1929,

bear market following,

crash of 1973–74 rivaling,

giant rally following,

crash of 1962, 36, 69 crash of 1970, 390–91 crash of 1973