At the height of the boom, for every dollar banks issued in bonds, they might issue twenty dollars in swaps.
The SEC added fuel by allowing Wall Street firms to greatly increase their leverage in 2005 at the height of the boom.
It worked so well that Cyprus' banking industry ballooned to nearly eight times the country's gross domestic product at the height of the boom.
At the height of the boom, people believed their homes generated cash by serving as a source of home equity credit, or by returning profits when they were sold.
Siemens' president and chief executive Dr Heinreich von Pierer forecasts that the growth in IT will return, but they are unlikely to see levels of growth seen at the height of the boom.
That compares with 65% and 56% respectively at the height of the boom in 2007 and it rivals America, with 68%, and eclipses Britain, with 64%, where support for free markets has fallen.
The index peaked at 1, 856.7 during the week ending May 30, 2003, at the height of the housing boom.
In 1999, at the height of the internet boom, two "old economy"newspaper giants, the Washington Post Co. and the Tribune Co.
It gained a listing on the US Nasdaq exchange in May 2000 at the height of the technology boom and was listed in London six months later.
At the height of the strawberry boom, train stations along the Strawberry Coast would have had queues of strawberry growers, horses and carts of up to a mile long waiting to get their fruits on the train.
Colonial Mutual Life, one of Australia's oldest insurance companies, bought the site on which the eyesores stand at the height of a property boom in the late 1980s and pulled down a strip of crude, modern buildings.
They had moved back to Sarasota, Florida from Nashville, Tennessee at the height of the housing market boom, and rented an apartment just long enough to decide they wanted to own their own home again.
At the height of the hi-tech boom, Nortel conducted a nationwide search for staff to relocate to Paignton.
In 1993, at the height of the emerging-markets boom, share prices jumped by an average of 75% during the year.
The stock came public at the height of the dot-com boom and has spent the last ten years recouping its immediate slide.
The movie was based on a successful series of books, the first of which came out in 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom.
Steve Jobs was born in 1955 to a Syrian immigrant father at the height of the post-War Baby Boom.
At the height of the short-lived B2B boom there were at least 2, 500 would-be electronic emporiums to sell every good and service you could think of.
But while you could very credibly argue that the ruble was becoming dangerously overvalued during the height of the 2007-08 energy boom, at the present time it would appear that, if anything, the ruble is actually modestly undervalued.
Whereas Netscape's IPO symbolized the dawn of the dotcom boom, TheGlobe.com's epitomized the height of irrational exuberance and Google's ushered in a renaissance of tech innovation after the Internet bubble burst, LinkedIn's debut will be remembered as social media's arrival on the capitalist stage known as Wall Street.
But Oshkosh made the same kind of mistake that many other well-run companies made at the height of the sub-prime housing boom, buying deep into the construction equipment sector at the top of the market and then suffering a staggering collapse in demand that impaired its capacity to meet debt obligations.
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Bonds like those sold by the New York Fed are backed by payments from large pools of home loans originated at the height of the U.S. housing boom to individuals with poor credit.
The pessimists argue that for all its construction boom (William Penn's statue, once setting a limit to any building's height, became a relative dwarf more than a decade ago), Philadelphia is still a laggard, slowed down by a history of outdated habits and infrastructure that does not apply to sunbelt cities such as Atlanta or Houston.
So there is a cut-off height above which it makes no sense building, but hubris (esp. during a credit boom) makes people want to add a dozen floors too many, and credit booms also lead builders to underestimate the cost of capital tied up in those extra floors.
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