This time is indeed different, though not because the boom-and-bust cycle has miraculously disappeared.
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.
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.
Colorado fears another boom-and-bust oil shale cycle, as in the early 1980s.
The combination of oil dependence and production constraints set up a self-sabotaging boom and bust cycle.
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.
Better, surely, to plough on with trying to rebalance the economy away from its dependence on a boom-bust consumer-spending cycle and towards investment and exports (however long and arduous that economic reconstruction may turn out to be).
As a result, the United States military is likely to experience yet another jag in the bust-and-boom cycle that has four times before in this century proven so wasteful and so reckless with regard to taxpayer equities and the national interest.
The result has been a boom-bust cycle that has been disruptive--and now politically costly.
First, they were primarily veteran investors who have been investing at least as long as the recent boom-bust real estate cycle that peaked in 2006 and bottomed out in 2012.
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If we keep having the same meltdown over and over then this could cause housing to go into a boom-bust cycle.
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The good news is, you can take the cautionary tales of the stock game, the mortgage game and the real estate game and figure out how you want to be positioned when the inevitable boom-bust-hatred cycle shifts into high gear.
In the 53rd month of the housing boom-bust cycle the year-over-year rate of monetary inflation was a smallish and quickly decelerating 5.3%.
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