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I'm a huge fan of Google's ngram viewer, which allows tracing the frequency of occurrence of words and phrases.
E.g., "femur", which scoofy mentions, grew in usage during the first half of the 19th century: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=femur&year_sta...
"quantitative easing" has a rather newer pedigree, emerging briefly in the early 1980s, and again following 2000.: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=quantitative+e...
Google Trends shows the more recent interest as a search term: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=quantitative%20easing
CDOs emerged in the late 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=collateralized...
Euro zone is a post-1995 phenomenon: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Euro+zone&year...
REITs date to the 1970s, but boomed in the 1990s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=REIT&year_star...
Hedge funds may date to 1949, but print, they're another concept which emerged only in the later half of the 1990s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hedge+fund&yea...
Securitization: the latter half of the 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=securitization...
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I'm a huge fan of Google's ngram viewer, which allows tracing the frequency of occurrence of words and phrases.
E.g., "femur", which scoofy mentions, grew in usage during the first half of the 19th century: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=femur&year_sta...
"quantitative easing" has a rather newer pedigree, emerging briefly in the early 1980s, and again following 2000.: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=quantitative+e...
Google Trends shows the more recent interest as a search term: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=quantitative%20easing
CDOs emerged in the late 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=collateralized...
Euro zone is a post-1995 phenomenon: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Euro+zone&year...
REITs date to the 1970s, but boomed in the 1990s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=REIT&year_star...
Hedge funds may date to 1949, but print, they're another concept which emerged only in the later half of the 1990s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hedge+fund&yea...
Securitization: the latter half of the 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=securitization...