We have had a remarkable eight years after a far more difficult period, including a recession in 1990.
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Consistent growth through the good times before the crash and also through the more difficult period since can be explained by tax incentives combined in many cases by a measure of desperation.
I think where we've stood out as a firm in more difficult periods like 2008 where our fund was off 16% in a world that was off 30%to50%0%.
"Therefore, if I was interested in not being involved in the club, I would have had ample opportunity in much more difficult periods to become a season ticket holder rather than the person who has to write the cheques out to support the whole club".
But, she added, "if the economic landscape deteriorates much from here, then we are going to have to suffer through a more difficult market period".
Most striking of all is Bragg's honesty and willingness to be transparent about the more difficult periods in his life.
At the time of its sale to Warburg Pincus, Bausch & Lomb was trying to move past one of the more difficult periods in its 160-year history.
The president, Donald Singer, an old-fashioned labor leader with a strong sense of the bottom line and a gift for the pithy quote, has just seen his members through one of the more difficult periods in their history.
If you look at the fund, it tends to do better in more difficult periods.
Speaking in the build-up to Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix, Rosberg said: "There's going to be ups and downs, more difficult periods.
