On the volume end of the spectrum, the gradual evolution of Gutenberg era printing to the offset printer (introduced in 1875) created a turn of the century boom in paper-based media, and the great Hearst-Pulitzer circulation wars of 1895-1898.

FORBES: The End of Pax Papyra and the Fall of Big Paper

Stora, which is one of the world's largest forestry groups, has long been plagued by the boom-bust cycle in the paper industry.

ECONOMIST: Is it a bird? Is it a manager?

But the paper must also appeal to the new consumers behind the betting boom.

ECONOMIST: A new newspaper plans to tap into Britain's betting boom

Having lived through a period of boom-and-bust land speculation, he distrusted paper money and banks.

ECONOMIST: American democracy

Although the Bretton-Woods system (1948-1971) was a pseudo-gold-standard manipulated by central banks, it was far superior to the fiat paper regimes seen since 1971, which have contributed so much to the boom-bust cycle, to unprecedented market volatility, over-leveraging, government budget deficits, debt crises, and economic stagnation.

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Despite all the initiatives and proposals mentioned in the green paper, the best hope for the government and its key workers is that the current housing boom in the south will cool off.

ECONOMIST: Housing

This one comes from a paper, delivered at a NBER conference last month, on the supply dynamics of the housing boom and bust. (A hat tip goes to Benjamin Keys.) The authors crunched census data to compile the compounded annual growth rates of the population, smoothed out over five years.

FORBES: Connect