With Latin America now experiencing a digital-music boom, Mr. Robinson appears to be diversifying.
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The boom made Mr Salinas richer than anyone in Mexico apart from Mr Slim.
Mr Salinas's boom was unsustainable, based as it was on high borrowing, a big current-account deficit and an overvalued currency.
Not good enough, retort critics, who see Lula as having surfed the commodity boom on Mr Cardoso's unpopular, but necessary, liberalising reforms.
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.
Voters may disagree over how much credit Mr Clinton deserves for the boom, but most will concede that he has not messed it up.
But the valley needs to go further, because, as Mr Henton argues, its boom-and-bust cycles are likely to be shorter in future, forcing it to reinvent itself more quickly.
She has strong popular support in Lima, the capital, and the coast, which have benefited most from the economic boom, whereas Mr Humala has many supporters in the still-impoverished southern Andes.
Skype's early boom was enough for Mr Zennstrom to declare that charging for calls belonged to "the last century".
But five years ago as the condo boom slowed down, Mr. Shvo shrank his business and eventually disappeared from the New York real-estate scene.
But after chiselling away at public debt during the boom years, insists Mr Darling, the government can now safely borrow a bit more to prime the pump.
Mr Brown has delivered the end to boom and bust that he promised.
During its 13 years in power up to 1996, it adopted the conservatives' agenda and deregulated the economy, laying the groundwork for an economic boom that has since helped Mr Howard win four successive elections.
One difference, says Mr Phillips, is that the previous economic boom sucked in a reserve army of women workers.
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Mr. Modi has presided over an economic boom in his region as chief minister of India's western Gujarat state, and is popular with investors.
Mr Romney is just as intent on the boom continuing.
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Mr Putin has been lucky to enjoy an oil boom that filled up state coffers and fanned economic growth.
Mr Clinton ended up presiding over the high-tech boom and a surge in the number of small businesses.
Mr Penney sees a softening in demand from the current boom's nouveaux riches, whose high-tech wealth is waning.
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Meanwhile, even if Mr Obama did not actively oppose the shale-gas boom, he did little to promote it either.
The major auto makers will soon have their own zero-emissions vehicles, which Mr. Musk says will end Tesla's credits boom by year end.
Despite this week's rate cut, it is too early for Mr Brown to claim that he has rescued Britain from boom and bust.
But his supporters say it was easy for Mr McCreevy to be innovative when he presided over the boom years of the Celtic Tiger economy.
Mr Davies is certainly worried by the prospect of a consumer boom.
The question Mr Ghazvinian sets is whether the countries now leading the oil boom, such as Angola, South Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, can expect much better.
Mr Bashir's survival has also been helped by an economic boom, at least in Khartoum.
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But the architect of the now fondly remembered Clinton boom and budget surpluses has international gravitas (more than Mr Kerry) and would provide an unexpected jolt of unconventionality to the campaign.
The European Central Bank and the Czech National Bank have what Poland refers to as ultralow rates, near zero, which aren't appropriate for the Polish economy because they would create boom-and-bust cycles and investment bubbles, Mr. Belka said earlier.
Known as the 'Sage of Omaha' and famous for both his folksy style and shrewd investment decisions, Mr Buffett was panned by critics for missing out on the internet stock boom of 1999 and 2000.
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