In the prime of life, by our new flexible baby-boom standards, they're fitness fiends.
During last decade's housing boom, the standards were quite different — sometimes nonexistent.
Like the rest of Wall Street, the companies got caught up in the gold rush of the housing boom, and standards evaporated.
The model emerged during the post-war boom, when living standards soared across western Europe.
In a telephone interview, Ms. Lancaster, 54, defended her record, saying that she had modernized the department in the midst of an unprecedented building boom, imposed integrity standards, hired and trained hundreds of employees and made records accessible to the public.
That still wont be a boom by historic standards, but it will feel like one compared with the bankruptcy holiday that defined 2006.
This profit boom has allowed standard, one-year P/E ratios to remain fairly low.
The older Mr. Sheff approaches the family story more conventionally, with more of the baby boom parent's standard narcissism.
Last week, one of the best-known magazines covering the Internet boom, The Industry Standard, announced that it would cease publication, while the publishing company, Standard Media International, looked for a buyer.
Lax lending standards in boom times predate the emergence of securitisation (in the 1970s) by several centuries at least.
Unlike competitors that had a heavy hand in the mortgage business during the toxic subprime boom, Wells Fargo enforced tougher standards for borrowers and only revved up its lending following the 2008 takeover of Wachovia.
