The state is in a boom, thanks to a major oil find called the Bakken reserve.
They resulted in a boom that added an economy the size of Germany's to U.S. GDP.
Financiers know more than regulators and their voices carry more weight in a boom.
Among the reasons, say experts, is that investors too often buy in a boom and overpay for stocks.
In a boom, rising property prices increase the value of the collateral held by banks, which makes them more willing to extend credit.
Others, such as German steelworkers, can put in more hours in a boom year in return for more time off the following year.
In a boom, companies could afford to be cavalier about hiring.
Moreover, since politicians are usually unwilling to tighten fiscal policy enough in a boom, any loosening of the budget reins tends to result in permanently higher debt.
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That may reflect the opportunity cost: in a boom skimping on sleep may mean you can earn more (though, like many things that seem a good idea at the time, the true costs may show up later).
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Back then, the dramatically low federal funds rate was enough to spur a wave of borrowing by companies and individuals, so much so that a series of 17 rate increases followed from June 2004 to June 2006 as the Fed tried to temper inflation in a boom period.
Changes in the number of houses for sale are widely seen as a good 'leading indicator' of price-changes: in a boom-period there are more buyers than sellers, so the number of properties for sale diminishes, and in a 'bust' period sellers exceed the number of those willing to buy at current prices, so prices tend to fall, as seems already to be happening in many areas.
We should restore America's competitiveness in the world by reducing the federal business tax rate to match Ireland's 12.5 percent rate, which proved highly successful in promoting a boom in jobs and wages.
Emerging markets are in a productivity boom and leveraging up, spending more and as a result creating squeezes in commodity and labor prices, creating a meaningful inflation problem.
We live in the middle of a boom in personal technology, and that goes for car travel, too.
Business travellers who like to try out new hotels are in luck: Bangkok is in the middle of a boom in luxury hotel development.
Controlled burns had been tried and tested before, and had been shown to be "effective in burning 50 to 95% of oil collected in a fire boom", she said.
How would it play with people and media if he announces significant restrictions on the availability of mortgages in a housing boom, for example, when he would be wholly insulated from such tough policy announcements?
"Given where we've been -- we've been in a huge boom -- it will feel to a lot of us like a recession, without there statistically being one, " said Allen Sinai, president of the advisory and research firm Primark Decision Economics and an informal adviser to both Democratic and Republican administrations.
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The expansion in mutual funds has encouraged a boom in new equity issues by small firms.
"We have set up inventory and feel everything is in place for a real boom in sales, " said Sam Landy, president of UMH Properties Inc.
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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Analysts say the obstacles Lynas has faced in Malaysia prevented it from enjoying a boom in rare-earths prices.
Moskowitz says bonuses will be especially high in Europe, which has seen a boom in hedge funds and in mergers and acquisitions, and they'll be even higher in Asia.
Lion Air is a low-cost carrier that holds about a 45 percent market share in Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago that's seeing a boom in both economic growth and air passengers.
The fusion of West and East Germany in 1990 led to a spending boom in which big firms became interested in extending their empires and neglected financial discipline.
The introduction of more-affordable mortgages in Mexico, coupled with lower interest rates, has fueled a boom in home building that began five years ago, but the country still faces a deficit of 4.3 million homes.
That opinion changed in a hurry when some noncreditworthy homeowners were unable to make their payments as a boom in the U.S. housing market stalled, leading to a global credit crisis in which any risk was considered a bad risk.
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