REITs are too small to stop another development boom on their own.

ECONOMIST: American property

Whether that boom will happen quickly enough to stop the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaching dangerous levels is moot.

ECONOMIST: A fundamental change is coming sooner than you might think

And the recent five year real estate boom there has a good five more years before home values stop appreciating.

FORBES: Brazil Housing Market Booming 'Til 2017

No one ever expects to regain the intoxicant levels of the boom years, but neither is it considered necessarily bad to stop living beyond our means on a raft of imported dreams. (It has certainly spelled immediate relief for the environment.) Painful, difficult times allow for painful, difficult changes.

CNN: Sign-off 1998

After the biggest boom and bust on record, history suggests things don't stop getting worse until they've gotten a lot worse than that.

WSJ: Is Your Home A Good Investment?

If you stop and ponder the late, fairy-tale tech boom of 1995-2000, with its grinning cover boys and girls, chances are you'll remember these glamour-puss CEOs.

FORBES: CLASS STARS: 1995-2000

Mr. SIEGLER: Back at the reintroduction site, Bob Leachman says the black-footed ferret's survival depends on how intense the drilling is, and he believes there's every indication given the current boom, that big trucks, drill rigs and roads will soon dot stop this landscape.

NPR: Drilling to Begin in Colorado Ferret Habitat