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From: QUOTE OF THE YEAR
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:07
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:07
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In article <1992Aug25.224147.3744@desire.wright.edu>, demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupend writes... >In article <1992Aug25.173645.16913@oakhill.sps.mot.com>, pjm@anegada.sps.mot.com (Patrick J. McGuinness) writes: >> demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man) writes: >>> In the last 100 years we've have four "boom" periods. Each and every >>>one resulted from (in part) taxes being lowered. >> >> We got 1920's (1924-1929, Coolidge tax cut) 1960's (1964-1969, Kennedy >> tax cut) and 1980's (1983-1989, Reagan tax cut). >> So what's the 4th boom period? >> > 1890s. (Thus "100 years" instead of this century.) Sorry about that. >I thought I had put in the dates. > >Brett This isn't meant as a flame, but I seem to remember that after everyone one these "boom" periods there was a severe recession. 1920's followed by the 30's. 64-69 followed by stagflation in the 70's (I remember a bad recession in 73-74, but I think there was also one before then) 83-89 followed by the present recession. I'm not sure of the exact date, but there was a depression in the 1890's as well. Does anyone have a theory on this? -Garrett
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Newsgroups: misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc,alt.activism,sci.econ Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!mips!mips!rtech!ingres!garrett From: garrett@Ingres.COM (QUOTE OF THE YEAR) Subject: Re: Boom Boom Boom Boom :) Message-ID: <1992Aug26.040745.3040@pony.Ingres.COM> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1 Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Ingres Product Division References: <1992Aug20.192934.29839@vexcel.com> <1992Aug24.105003.18370@hemlock.cray.com> <1992Aug25.224147.3744@desire.wright.edu> Date: 26 Aug 92 04:07:45 GMT Lines: 29