Spaniards and Greeks, by contrast, have been whisked abruptly, and painfully, from boom to bust.
Early in the morning construction crews began lifting the boom to its lofty position above 57th Street.
Tax cuts, tort reform and telecom deregulation--if passed--would set off a capital spending boom to shame the 1990s.
And it is not hard to find the imbalances that might trigger the shift from boom to bust.
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They've performed very, very sluggishly, in fact a steep fall-off from the Internet boom to where we are now.
This speculation drives prices even higher, until some shock (or the desire to take profits) causes the boom to implode.
We are all expecting this energy boom to be the spark that sets our economy on fire for the next generation.
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He requested more containment boom to protect the shoreline and asked Ms. Napolitano to ensure that BP establishes more in-state claims offices.
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But the Fed-fed inflation fired up the housing boom to white-hot levels.
Many countries eschewed their past habit of abusing a boom to borrow.
Some of them have actually gone from price boom to price bust to boom again, all within the span of a decade.
What is striking is that the pain has been much more evenly distributed than when we have lurched from boom to bust in the past.
Falling rates come amid sliding volumes, and the resulting oversupply in the shipping industry that went from boom to bust because of the global credit crisis.
Most people attribute the tech-stock boom to the madness of crowds, like the tulipomania of the 1600s and the South Sea Bubble of the early 1700s.
Lawrence Summers, America's treasury secretary, attracted attention recently when he likened the new-technology boom to a positive supply-side shock, the converse of the oil-price shocks of the 1970s.
On the one hand, this should also give them a better chance of using a mineral resources boom to raise living standards in a country that remains desperately poor.
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.
Recognising that this would allow the economy to grow faster without fuelling inflation, Mr Greenspan allowed the boom to continue and unemployment to fall, dragging many disadvantaged workers back into the labour force.
Samsung Electronics delivered a yet another stellar performance in Q1 2013, riding the smartphone boom to grow revenues by 17% and operating profits by an even higher 54% over the same period last year.
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Meanwhile, mission specialist Charlie Camarda and pilot Jim Kelly have been continuing to inspect the shuttle for damage sustained during the climb to orbit, using the shuttle's 15m-long boom to photograph and scan Discovery's port wing.
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Buckingham's sanguine outlook notwithstanding, most advisers see the home builders' sharp drops in the past three months as dark omens from the market that cast significant doubt on the ability of the real estate boom to continue.
If there is no bailout, no injection of money by the government or the Fed, the ones that will get hurt will largely only be the ones who used the easy credit available during the immediately preceding boom to make poor investments.
Supersonic Aerospace International have been developing a 12-seater luxury aircraft, the Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) jet, which they hope will take to the skies in 2013 and reduce the noise of the sonic boom to no more than the noise level of a truck driving past your window.
The expected demand failed to materialise and boom turned to bust.
And the best way to rein in the consumption boom is to tighten fiscal policy.
The industriousness of the elderly has little to do with a jobs boom and more to do with the baby boom, she argues.
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Businesses evaluating how to get in on the Big Data boom need to decide which of three possible roles they want to play: information provider, information broker, or creator of networks through which all that Big Data-driven content and context will flow.
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