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The steel crisis was a recession in the global steel market during the 1973–1975 recession and early 1980s recession following the post–World War II economic expansion and the 1973 oil crisis, further compounded by the 1979 oil crisis, and lasted well into the 1980s.
The world steel industry flattened from 2007 to 2009 at 1,300 million tonnes, before rising again, due to worldwide recession starting in 2008, with its heavy cutbacks in construction, sharply lowered demand and prices falling 40%.
In 1996, Simon bet $1,000 with David South, professor of the Auburn University School of Forestry, that the inflation-adjusted price of timber would decrease in the following five years. Simon paid out early on the bet in 1997 (before his death in 1998) based on his expectation that prices would remain above 1996 levels (which they did). [13]
Automotive-steel demand soared during and after the pandemic, only to then fall into the current down cycle after the boom. So, tariffs could help elevate steel prices, and therefore industry ...
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The bids came as steel prices came down almost 45% off their pandemic highs in September 2021. A rise in prices during the early stages of the pandemic helped the company turn itself around ...
A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865–1925 (1995) Chapter 1 "The Dominance of Rails" Nasaw, David. Andrew Carnegie (The Penguin Press, 2006). Paskoff, Paul F. Iron and Steel in the Nineteenth Century (Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography) (1989) 385 pp; biographies and brief corporate histories; Rogers ...
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