For the cosmic picture we need Robert McTeer, Michael Cox, and Richard Alm, in the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank's 1999 annual report. You might call their timing propitious. The report comes out just when analysts are banging their heads against the wall, wondering what gives with the stock market. It's 2000, a hugely different time in hugely vital respects. Well, since you ask, a new Boeing computer program cuts design time by 60-90 percent.
Results can be explosive.
I myself would raise another red flag. You can't take those with you either. Markets rise, markets fall, life goes on. But not so much better and more hopeful we can relax. Would you like to see them add this columnist to their newspaper.