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Economists are interested in studying the borrowing response of households to rising house prices and increasing home equity during the recent house price boom for two main reasons.
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While six of Australia's top ten export markets are already in recession, the chief impact has come from the slowdown in one that is not: China, its biggest trading partner, and the main driver of a minerals boom that has fed fat company-tax revenues.
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Energy and durability are the two main focuses of the green building boom.
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Absent another economic boom, maybe the main issue affecting US unemployment is the excess of worldwide labor (including skilled labor) in an increasingly global economy.
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Sure enough, ethnic-Han Chinese, many of them recent migrants hoping to profit from a train-related tourism boom, were the main targets of the violence in Lhasa.
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And since the main worry at present is a consumer boom, the brunt of those tax rises ought to have fallen on consumers.
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What is the main motivation behind the self-employment boom?
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But the main motors of migration will still be economic boom or bust on both sides of the border.
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The main benefit to the poor of a construction boom, at least at first, is likely to be the jobs it will create.
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The boom in ethanol has been driven by three main components--a blenders' credit that creates an incentive for producers who add ethanol to their fuel, an import tariff that keeps out foreign competitors, and a renewable fuels standard that sets the level of production.
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At home, the main risk is that lower interest rates will prolong the house-price boom.
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It is scary that America's boom, fuelled by an unsustainable stockmarket, is now the main prop for global demand.
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