That is most true of the Fed, which slashed rates between 2001 and 2003, held them at 1% for a year and then raised them in slow, predictable quarter-point steps, fuelling the housing boom.

这一批评对美联储来说恰如其分：它在2001年至2003年间持续降息，使利率低到1%并维持了一年，然后一成不变地以每季度四分之一个百分比的速度缓缓加息，这无疑是对房市繁荣火上加油。

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It is winning customers from its rivals and, after a profitable quarter, is hoping to post its first full-year profit since the boom.

Sun不断的从竞争对手那里赢得客户，一季度赢利，且有望多年来首次发布全年赢利报告。

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Looked at this way, homes are even more overvalued than they were at the peak of the boom in the late 1980s: the ratio stands at 6.0, compared with 5.2 in the third quarter of 1989.

这样看来，房屋的沽值甚至比20世纪80年代房价增长巅峰时还要高：现在的比值是6.0，而1989年第三季度的比值只有5.2。

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The fourth quarter of 2010 was a huge boom quarter for solar stocks when Italy installed more solar projects than anyone had foreseen.

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So we are open to buy anything once it starts growing rapidly, even if it had done nothing, nothing, nothing, and now, all of a sudden in the fourth quarter boom!

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Reagan got elected, and his policies enabled us to achieve a quarter-century-long boom.

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