The black middle class is growing by 50% every year and fuelling a consumer boom.
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During the late 20th century, we fuelled a consumer boom that has well and truly peaked.
With the economy strong, and given the national propensity to spend, spend, spend, another British consumer boom looked likely.
The typical British bank holiday boosts retail sales, and wedding parties and memorabilia should add to the consumer boom.
This is particularly alarming for Thailand, which grew at a reasonable 4.6% last year on the back of a consumer boom.
That prudence paid off, bringing economic stability and launching a consumer boom.
Like many other states, before the bust Florida enjoyed a consumer boom that may have left it with too many retail outlets.
Consumer confidence jumped sharply after the election, and is now at levels not seen since the peak of the 1987-88 consumer boom.
Mr Davies is certainly worried by the prospect of a consumer boom.
MPC's worries, the revisions also revealed that the economy has remained unhealthily reliant upon a consumer boom, fuelled by an overheated housing market.
And since the main worry at present is a consumer boom, the brunt of those tax rises ought to have fallen on consumers.
These supply the northern government in Khartoum with most of its substantial revenues and help to fund a building and consumer boom in the capital.
So although we may all be fed up with the economy's torpor, and would be keen for a bit of renewed growth, it is not clear that any growth sparked by a new housing-linked consumer boom would be altogether healthy.
Even in this consumer boom that is still the vast majority of all tech spending, though consumer devices like an Apple iPhone with a corporate application, or a company building software using Amazon Web Services, make those distinctions harder.
With greater confidence has come a consumer spending boom, which risks overheating the economy.
An overvalued stockmarket, a credit-driven consumer-spending boom and a current-account deficit all point to the same conclusion: that America's expansion is unsustainable.
This is a budget which, far from investing in future growth or helping the poor, favours the rich with cuts in capital-gains and inheritance taxes: devices likely to fuel the already giddy stockmarket and to bring the country just what it needs least, a consumer-spending boom.
From 1976 to 2000, a boom in consumer spending touched off an explosive demand for new advertising inventory.
In Britain, given the size of its finance industry, housing boom and consumer debt, the balance-sheet adjustment will, if anything, be greater.
Indeed, there is growing evidence that the American economy is overheating despite the chilly breeze from across the Pacific: consumer spending continues to boom, unemployment is at a 30-year low of 4.3%, and inflation is starting to creep up.
Better, surely, to plough on with trying to rebalance the economy away from its dependence on a boom-bust consumer-spending cycle and towards investment and exports (however long and arduous that economic reconstruction may turn out to be).
For the avoidance of doubt, ministers in this government have consistently and repeatedly told me that the British economy had become far too dependent in the boom years on consumer spending - and they recognised that a rebalancing towards investment was essential.
Last year, Indonesia garnered huge enthusiasm as investors poured money in to capture its consumer- and commodity-led boom.
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In effect, the boom has brought forward consumer spending, which has grown faster than the economy for seven years.
Of course Apple is the founding father of this whole technology boom, with the consumer mobile devices that it developed.
This money financed the boom in investment and consumer spending.
Despite generalized anxiety among the chattering class about an end to the long boom, whether from consumer or business retrenchment or a combination of the two, the bulls are holding their own.
Supporters of tax cuts might argue that we will lose our AAA rating anyway if growth fails to materialize - because even the new, revised and realistic OBR projection has growth at 0.8% this year (it will struggle to meet that) and a combination of consumer spending and a soaraway investment boom from 2013 onwards.
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