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Michael Milken, the man credited with creating the market for high yield "junk" bonds and spurring the LBO boom of the 1980s. The beginning of the first boom period in private equity would be marked by the well-publicized success of the Gibson Greetings acquisition in 1982 and would roar ahead through 1983 and 1984 with the soaring stock market driving profitable exits for private equity ...
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The 1980s were a tough time for financial markets. Not one but two recessions in the early '80s, high rates of inflation and unemployment, and Black Monday, one of the worst stock market crashes of...
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This weakness was far in the rearview mirror as the 1980s ended, and on Sept. 22, 1989, first-day shareholders held shares worth 4,800% more than their IPO purchase price.
A yuppie culture developed at the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Mobile telephones were also known by the popular nickname "yuppienalle". ("Yuppie's teddy bear") [3] The term finansvalp ("finance puppy") was common when referring to young businessmen.
In the 1980s, stock buybacks, once banned as a form of stock manipulation, became legal. Tamir says this change, specifically, allowed companies to inflate their stock prices.
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