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Recession, robots and rockets: Another Roaring '20s for world markets?

The Japan Times

LONDON – Helicopter cash, climate crises, smart cities and the space economy -- investors have all those possibilities ahead as they enter the third decade of the 21st century. They go into the new decade with a spring in their step after watching world stocks add over $25 trillion in value in the past 10 years and a bond rally put $13 trillion worth of bond yields below zero. They also saw internet-based firms transform the way humans work, shop and relax. Now investors are positioning for the tech revolution's next 10 years. Could we see a repeat of the Roaring '20, as the 1920s were known -- years of prosperity, technological innovation and such social developments as women winning the right to vote?