As policymakers have battled the biggest economic bust since the Depression, John Maynard Keynes has been their guide.
And that means the eventual economic bust is going to be a doozy.
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This kind of monetary largesse says to us that an economic bust, and a pretty big one is in the offing.
Those interventionist policies fueled massive capital malinvestment including housing and credit bubbles, all of which culminated in the greatest economic bust in 80 years.
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Sparrow said that talks with HP have been in progress over the past two or more years, but the economic bust had organizations everywhere less eager to contribute donations.
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Thus it happens that during an economic bust, like the one in 1990, bookstore shelves sag with gloomy titles, such as The Age of Diminished Expectations, Econoquake and The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
The fact is, given the size of this our current monetary largesse, any substantive deceleration in the rate of monetary inflation from here ushers in the real possibility of another financial and economic bust, and a monumental one at that.
But the main motors of migration will still be economic boom or bust on both sides of the border.
Ethanol as government energy policy has been an economic and environmental bust.
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Yet Latvian politics is all too lively, with a perilous economic boom and bust, swaggering oligarchs, storms over the anti-corruption agency and persistent fears of Russian meddling.
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In this study, the researchers tallied a massive amount of NIH and CDC data from 1928 to 2007, breaking it down by age group and coordinating it with periods of economic boom and bust.
But the President remains confident that he has put forward a budget that meets the critical investments that he thinks America must be making in order to move past the bubble-and-bust economic era into some sustained economic growth, while cutting that deficit in half in four years.
Now to give more of a clue to how and when our economy will recover, McKinsey has looked at the experience of two Scandinavian countries, Sweden and Finland, which experienced credit and housing booms (rather like us) in the 1980s that turned into an economic and financial bust in 1990 (sound familiar).
In almost every similar cycle, when an economic boom turns to bust, the total debt outstanding exceeds the amount of money available to pay for it.
Finally, the most critical part of our strategy is to ensure that we do not return to an economic cycle of bubble and bust in this country.
In general, economic boom-and-bust cycles have become increasingly shorter over the last 30 years, and with the prevalence today of real-time information, instant trades, and inextricably-linked international markets, this bubble will rise and fall more quickly and under greater scrutiny from investors, regulators and consumers.
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To be able to deal with the vicissitudes of economic swings and changes without going bust.
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He said the forecasts from the OBR were down to the eurozone crisis, a hike in global commodity prices and a new assessment that the UK's economic boom was bigger and the bust deeper than previously believed.
But after a surge in sales in 2007 and 2008, Tundra slipped back during the Great Recession, when brand loyalty for Detroit Three trucks kept their franchises relatively strong even as the housing bust and other general economic woes made professional buyers harder to come by.
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To a bull, the market's enemy isn't boom-and-bust cycles, but bad economic policy.
In terms of jobs and economic growth, QE2 was a complete bust.
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Economists trained in the Austrian framework recognised early on that the recent boom was induced by rampant credit and money creation rather than sustainable economic growth, and correctly predicted the inevitable bust.
But the impact is likely to be much less serious than in the last housing-market bust in the early 1990s because the economic fundamentals are much sounder.
Businessmen give Mr Brown due credit for his management of the economy: the chancellor has delivered the great prize of economic stability, although manufacturing has experienced a serious bust.
As we have noted on numerous occasions, all monetary inflations eventually end in economic busts, the larger the monetary inflation the larger the bust.
Pessimists compare China to Japan in the 1990s, when a rising economic power, gaining ground on America, suffered an asset bust that has haunted it ever since.
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Let's also skip the quick sociology yes, DC airports have more than their share of pleated khakis, and economic troubles notwithstanding, Ann Taylor appears in little danger of going bust but in the company of so many people, going to or coming from so many places, one cannot help but be intrigued and then shattered by narrative possibilities.
Some of the hardest hit workers, the authors noted, were employed in fields like construction that suffered severe downturns during the economic crisis or were based in cities that were disproportionately affected by the housing bust.
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Spain's construction bust and rigid labour markets seem certain to condemn it to years of economic struggle and high unemployment, yet Michigan is scarcely in better shape.
Infinitely more important (and putting aside whatever short-term, transient economic benefits may ensue) is the fact that easy money policies guarantee economic busts, and the larger the monetary largesse fostered by such policies, the larger the bust.
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