Aside from the ethanol boom pushing up corn prices, critics argue producing the biofuel consumes more energy than it saves and might actually add to global warming concerns.
The region's sustained boom has covered up many weaknesses, in political as well as economic systems.
South Africa has yet to see an Internet start-up boom like that in America or Europe.
He adds that a housing boom is ramping up in Turkey, which makes that area look attractive.
Mr Putin has been lucky to enjoy an oil boom that filled up state coffers and fanned economic growth.
The recycled boom material makes up about 25 percent of the part.
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Elsewhere another boom was set up as a second line of defense.
Emerging markets are in a productivity boom and leveraging up, spending more and as a result creating squeezes in commodity and labor prices, creating a meaningful inflation problem.
And while housing prices may still be low compared with the hottest areas of the country, the housing boom pushed them up considerably, according to the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
While debate continues over whether and how stimulus dollars should be used, the Tri-Cities area that surrounds the Hanford site -- which includes Richland, Kennewick and Pasco -- is reaping the benefits of the clean-up boom.
"It's more peaceful out here than it is in Croydon today, " he says, as music booms from the courtside speakers, and indeed, the word "Boom" flashes up on the big screen after another decisive point is scored.
The business community is drunk on a stock market boom that is far up the risk curve.
In America, mortgage rates have been rising over the past two months, choking off the refinancing boom that has propped up consumer spending.
The real background to the prison boom, which shows up only sporadically in the prison literature, is the crime wave that preceded and overlapped it.
Now, there are other things that Greenspan can be blamed for: like the common belief that the housing boom was deliberately stoked up to deal with the aftermath of the dotcom crash.
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Then Europe's economic recovery and the boom in East Asia pushed up their prices and spread them more widely.
Yet here's Chambers, talking up the next boom in a conference room outside his office at Cisco's San Jose, California. headquarters.
But the Fed-fed inflation fired up the housing boom to white-hot levels.
This off-campus building boom is forcing schools to up their game, though slashed budgets have left minimal funds to erect new residence halls.
At its most prosperous, during the construction boom in the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, San'ya was home to 15, 000 day labourers.
He said during the real-estate boom, sales were driven up by "artful credit conditions, but now with tight credit, "prices are more real.
But male suicide rates went up during the boom years of the mid-1980s and late 1990s, which suggests that cash does not necessarily lead to contentment.
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Hopes of a sustainable recovery will depend on deleveraging by both consumers and firms, an effort to pay off the debt that piled up during the boom.
As for the Mining Boom III, the pick up in export volumes flowing from the surge in mining investment in iron ore, coal and liquid natural gas will start to get underway around 2014-15.
Lord Turner warns that the process of businesses, households, banks and the government trying to cut their big debts built up in the boom years, what is known as deleveraging, may bear down on the British economy's ability to grow for many years yet.
Same with the over-allocation of capital to housing 2001-2007 which ended in the bubble that got us to this frustrating spot. psperry wants Bernanke to raise short-term interest rates slightly in order to crack oil and gold and food prices so that we can start over from a worse place and lead up to another boom.
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Eventually even the most oblivious of us wakes up and realizes that easy money caused a bubble, not a boom, and then the rate must go up.
Reacting to McMansions that went up in the housing boom, some communities, like Chevy Chase, Md.
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