Boom most often looks like huge, floating sandbags strung together in a line, and either absorbs oil or deflects it toward a collection point.

浮动档栏往往是连在一条线上的巨大浮动沙袋，要么能够吸收石油，要么使石油向某个石油收集点聚集。

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And they make a point of exchanging business CARDS: for China's car boom is encouraging not just physical mobility but a new social mobility too.

他们还重视交换名片：因为中国的汽车繁荣不仅鼓励了物理上的移动，而且鼓励了一种新的社会流动。

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That is most true of the Fed, which slashed rates between 2001 and 2003, held them at 1% for a year and then raised them in slow, predictable quarter-point steps, fuelling the housing boom.

这一批评对美联储来说恰如其分：它在2001年至2003年间持续降息，使利率低到1%并维持了一年，然后一成不变地以每季度四分之一个百分比的速度缓缓加息，这无疑是对房市繁荣火上加油。

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The current monetary inflation that is the Bernanke boom-bust-to-be is already multiples larger than the monetary inflation that produced the tech bust and, at this point in the boom-bust cycle, even larger than the inflationary surge that gave us the housing bust turn Great Recession.

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Only when the economy is in boom or bust will all the data point consistently in one direction.

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The sad point being that whatever the boom in US manufacturing it is still true that the days of sector as a source of mass employment are over, dead and gone.

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