The boom in prices ushered in a time of profits and high valuations in a business where bail-out and bankruptcy had previously been the norm.
Turns out, plenty of homeowners are suffering despite the recent boom in house prices.
But far from being an opportunistic asset grab, it was arranged in 2007 at boom-time prices.
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Thanks to better economic management and the boom in commodity prices, several emerging economies have enviably strong public finances.
In 1993, at the height of the emerging-markets boom, share prices jumped by an average of 75% during the year.
Dear Steven We have certainly seen a boom in house prices and you rightly indicate that London has led the country.
Mr Flaherty could afford this combination of largesse and virtue because Canada is among the chief beneficiaries of the current boom in commodity prices.
The construction boom comes as prices have risen 70% in the past five years, prompting the government to impose taxes on sales to foreigners or on locals buying multiple units.
Mr Albanese was not the only boss of a big mining firm to misread the robustness of China's rampant growth, which had driven a six-year boom in commodity prices and made mining unimaginably profitable.
Falling exports and a glut of too many ships ordered during the boom years drove prices down to unsustainable levels on some routes, but the outlook is now improving for both the ports and the shipping companies.
In real terms house prices in America, Britain and Australia have risen more rapidly in recent years than during the late 1980s house-price boom, leaving prices close to record highs in relation to both rents and household incomes.
And the recent boom in commodity prices, driven by rapid growth in demand from China (along with the diversion of corn and sugar into to alcohol production), largely explains why total support fell from 37 percent of farm income in 1986 to 18 percent in 2010.
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In the US, exploitation of shale gas boom has sent energy prices tumbling, and the Prime Minister has expressed hopes that the UK can enjoy a similar boom.
Mr. Miller said the market may be stronger now than it was during the boom years, when prices were higher.
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In a boom, rising property prices increase the value of the collateral held by banks, which makes them more willing to extend credit.
The commodities boom has increased the prices of wood and metals.
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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.
Both disasters prompted policy makers to ease monetary and fiscal conditions that fueled an expansion in the aggregate demand, especially a construction boom that boosted equity prices, especially shares of companies involved directly or indirectly in reconstruction.
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Scottish financial firms, for example, have found that fear of losing a place on the London property ladder deters some professionals from moving north of the border, though this is now less of a problem since a recent boom in Edinburgh house prices.
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In 1980, I decamped to Houston amid an epic boom fueled by rising oil prices.
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Without a big property boom this time around, prices did not have so far to fall.
He thinks the supply-side global economic boom can support higher commodity prices and stocks.
But the latest boom in real-estate prices has nearly wiped away Hong Kong's haunted-house discount.
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Analysts say the obstacles Lynas has faced in Malaysia prevented it from enjoying a boom in rare-earths prices.
With inflation under control, central banks are inclined to keep interest rates low and thereby unwittingly accommodate an unsustainable boom in credit and asset prices.
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However, special factors are largely to blame: first America's boom and then rising oil prices lifted the proportion of trade with countries outside the zone.
The San Francisco tech boom has helped push condo prices higher.
In the 1990s copper prices enjoyed a boom, thanks to strong demand from phone companies, which used the metal in the networks they were ferociously building.
Throughout the region a boom-bust cycle in asset prices preceded the currency crisis.
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Spending was driven by a boom in cheap credit and the prices of assets, which were forever being pushed higher.
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