When the new Freedom Tower is complete in lower Manhattan, it will be one of the top five tallest buildings in the world with a total peak height of 1, 776 feet.

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Such levels would be nearly 200 basis points above the prior peak reached at the height of the credit-induced global growth bubble.

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Despite the increases, prices nationwide are still about 30 percent below the peak they reached at the height of the housing bubble in the summer of 2006.

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On Friday, its shares ended the day in Tokyo at 1, 149 yen - a fraction of their peak of 16, 950 yen at the height of the Japanese stock market bubble in 2000.

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At the height of the art market's last cyclical peak, 1988-89, I wrote that Van Gogh's "Irises" was a junk bond.

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