Japan's gold-selling boom could soon turn to gold-buying, analysts say, if policy makers succeed in their goal of ending 15 years of deflation and sparking a new round of inflation.
Independent gold mining has seen a boom in Sudan in the past few years, as the country looks for new sources to boost its economy.
During the banking boom Reykjavik resembled a gold-rush town.
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It was also the cause of the subsequent run up of the price of gold, which was followed by a bust in gold and thereafter, a huge boom, in which ordinary Americans were lured into debt and coaxed towards poverty.
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The government says the mining is illegal, but in this rural Muslim region of north-western Nigeria it has been going on for generations - and it was a discovery of greater deposits that has led to the recent boom in digging for gold.
The grab by Argentina for control its national oil company, YPF, should throw the fear of God into investors round the globe about the way revenue-hungry politicians are trying to cash in on the global boom in natural resources like oil, gold, copper, iron ore.
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Gold-rush bank now cashing in on American mortgage lending boom.
There followed the dotcom boom in the late 1990s, which promised to make silicon the new gold in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Same with the over-allocation of capital to housing 2001-2007 which ended in the bubble that got us to this frustrating spot. psperry wants Bernanke to raise short-term interest rates slightly in order to crack oil and gold and food prices so that we can start over from a worse place and lead up to another boom.
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With the 20th-century boom in winter sports, the unloved blankets of snow that stifled the Walser each winter suddenly became white gold, and villages such as Davos, Klosters and Lech grew into famous ski resorts.
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