The aspiration to end the boom-bust cycle should only ever be a long-term one.
Stora, which is one of the world's largest forestry groups, has long been plagued by the boom-bust cycle in the paper industry.
This has smoothed out the boom-bust cycle but it also means that there is not the excess housing on the market you would expect in a recession.
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Beneath the psychological swings lies the root cause: the boom-bust cycle is due to government manipulation of the money supply, as the Austrian school of economists have demonstrated.
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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.
Although the Bretton-Woods system (1948-1971) was a pseudo-gold-standard manipulated by central banks, it was far superior to the fiat paper regimes seen since 1971, which have contributed so much to the boom-bust cycle, to unprecedented market volatility, over-leveraging, government budget deficits, debt crises, and economic stagnation.
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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%.
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.
Throughout the region a boom-bust cycle in asset prices preceded the currency crisis.
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This time is indeed different, though not because the boom-and-bust cycle has miraculously disappeared.
So he focuses on companies that sell into fast-growing overseas markets or are somehow protected from the chemical stocks' boom-bust cycle (see table).
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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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.
During the past 30 years India has suffered from a boom-bust cycle that is as predictable as the monsoon.
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.
Colorado fears another boom-and-bust oil shale cycle, as in the early 1980s.
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.
Why is the United States still locked in this self-perpetuating boom-bust cycle in clean energy?
Will Asian policymakers overstimulate to push another boom-bust cycle or will they deftly manage the transition from a tight environment to a loose one?
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).
The combination of oil dependence and production constraints set up a self-sabotaging boom and bust cycle.
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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