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To date, it has not delivered any aerial refuelers or operational booms.
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There are many possible causes for such sounds, he said, including large waves, earthquakes, shifting sands in dunes or deserts, far off thunder or man-made sources like factories, explosions or sonic booms.
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In what are (sometimes euphemistically) called the developing countries, one year seems to follow the next without any booms or busts, just deadness in the water.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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But back then natural resource booms of one sort or another produced their millionaires.
FORBES: Show Us the Money
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His 1922 book The Trade Cycle described the "tendency for confidence to pass into errors of optimism or pessimism, " which triggers booms and busts.
FORBES: The Confidence Question
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That's exactly how a death tax that was originally sold in 1916 as hitting only billionaires like the Rockefellers gradually began to apply to middle-class families who own, say, a successful auto-repair shop or invested wisely during the stock market booms of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Multibillion-dollar campaigns to guarantee jobs or incomes for those left behind by national booms are now taking hold in the biggest markets of Asia.
FORBES: March of the Populists
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You can blame Republicans who won't pass a budget, or Democrats who spend every single cent of tax money that comes in during the booms, borrow some more and then act all surprised when revenues, in a totally unprecedented, inexplicable and unforeseeable chain of events, fall during a recession.
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While it provides insights into booms and their ending, it fails to explain why things must end quite so badly, or how to escape when they do.
ECONOMIST: Heterodox economics
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The profits may then be reinvested or spent, creating significant stimulative effects, but usually this happens when market conditions are strong, exacerbating unsustainable market booms.
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