This time is indeed different, though not because the boom-and-bust cycle has miraculously disappeared.
Labour had made the Bank of England independent to avoid returning to boom-and-bust, he stressed.
This is genuine, bottom-up growth, not the boom-and-bust kind that used to characterise the West.
Rather like shipbuilding half a century ago, he says, shipbreaking is a boom-and-bust business.
Having lived through a period of boom-and-bust land speculation, he distrusted paper money and banks.
Still, it has always been a boom-and-bust business, and now it is closer to bust.
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Still, however painful, this is not the same sort of bubble as the first internet boom-and-bust.
The Web is ultimately not about stock prices that can defy gravity or about the end of boom-and-bust cycles.
To a bull, the market's enemy isn't boom-and-bust cycles, but bad economic policy.
To be sure, the ability of Cyprus to become a player in the boom-and-bust energy industry remains to be seen.
The wild swings in the housing market in the late 1980s and early 1990s drove the wider economy into boom-and-bust.
Colorado fears another boom-and-bust oil shale cycle, as in the early 1980s.
Dodd-Frank will reduce some of the behavior that caused the last boom-and-bust, but seems unlikely to prevent whatever will cause the next crisis.
Before the attacks on America, an economic slowdown was already taking its toll on an industry which is notorious for its boom-and-bust nature.
Scott last parted with Dundee in 2000 after guiding them to fifth in the Scottish Premier League, making way for the boom-and-bust Ivano Bonetti era.
Liveris is trying to break Dow out of the boom-and-bust cycle of the chemical industry and turn it into a diversified provider of consistent earnings growth.
Fertilizer stocks, historically a boom-and-bust bunch, have been soaring lately, as investors bet that surging food inflation will continue to push global grain prices and fertilizer demand substantially higher.
Policy support for clean tech commercialization, demonstration, and deployment was in equally bad shape, plagued by boom-and-bust periods of expiring incentives and on-again, off-again subsidy extensions.
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Will Russia--with its difficult and confounding history, its boom-and-bust cycles, its questionable commitment to rule of law and open markets--once again send investors stampeding for the exits?
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.
But commodities firms of all stripes argue that rapid economic growth in the developing world will boost demand for their wares for years to come and so help them to escape from the industry's typical boom-and-bust cycles.
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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.
In general, economic boom-and-bust cycles have become increasingly shorter over the last 30 years, and with the prevalence today of real-time information, instant trades, and inextricably-linked international markets, this bubble will rise and fall more quickly and under greater scrutiny from investors, regulators and consumers.
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At 56, the soft-spoken, mustachioed former money manager is looking for the next mother lode in Nevada--a logical place since the state produces more gold than any other in the U.S. McEwen implies that we're at the start of a classic boom-and-bust cycle but is plunging in anyway.
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.
The combination of oil dependence and production constraints set up a self-sabotaging boom and bust cycle.
This has continued unabated during the boom dot-com years, year 2000 non-problem, through the 2001 -2003 technology recession and finally through the recent boom and bust.
After almost three years of living in Vietnam, I returned to the U.S. and quickly found myself caught up in to the boom and bust of the dot-com era.
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