An overvalued stockmarket, a credit-driven consumer-spending boom and a current-account deficit all point to the same conclusion: that America's expansion is unsustainable.
Micheal Martin's Fianna Fail and John Gormley's Greens - the outgoing coalition - are performing appallingly - blamed for the over-heated and under-regulated construction boom that brought such havoc on Ireland's economy and banking system.
Saving started declining in the mid-1980s as the baby-boom generation began the high-spending part of life, having children and buying homes.
"We heard the boom, boom, boom -- like a series of gunshots, " said Clark.
CPC, a competitor since digested by other competitors, quickly filed a number of spoiler pasta patents: astronauts, vampires, bongo-drums, boom-boxes.
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It's clearly a boom time - it was a boom time at least through early 2006 in terms of house prices.
The impact will become even clearer in 2012 when the first members of the 1947-49 baby-boom generation hit 65.
Meanwhile, members of the 1946-64 baby-boom generation will be hard at work, presumably earning rising incomes and paying swelling Social Security taxes, even without a further increase.
The mid-1990s creative boom in CD-based multimedia software has come and gone.
The backbone of this would-be tourism boom is nature-viewing safaris to places like Chobe National Park, the Okavango Delta and the vast Kalahari Desert.
If you stop and ponder the late, fairy-tale tech boom of 1995-2000, with its grinning cover boys and girls, chances are you'll remember these glamour-puss CEOs.
All too often pundits and policymakers seek a single cause for social stratification when they should accept that in a nation where inequality in real monetary terms is increasing - and has been doing so for quite some time despite the so-called boom years - the reasons for being at the bottom of the heap are manifold.
The post-war "baby-boom" generation is now reaching reproductive age.
Changes in the number of houses for sale are widely seen as a good 'leading indicator' of price-changes: in a boom-period there are more buyers than sellers, so the number of properties for sale diminishes, and in a 'bust' period sellers exceed the number of those willing to buy at current prices, so prices tend to fall, as seems already to be happening in many areas.
Just as critical, Mr. Keogh says, will be maintaining Audi's edge with luxury-car buyers in their 20s, 30s and early- to mid-40s whose numbers rival the size of the baby-boom generation.
This is genuine, bottom-up growth, not the boom-and-bust kind that used to characterise the West.
Some will argue that the FSA is now placing excessive restrictions on banks, having - by its own admission - failed to curb their recklessness in the boom years before 2007-8.
Just a few years later Craig Venter started making headlines for his gene-sequencing work--giving biotechnology a lofty place alongside the dot-com boom.
Last year, Indonesia garnered huge enthusiasm as investors poured money in to capture its consumer- and commodity-led boom.
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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.
With 2007 as the largest birth year in U.S. history, even larger than the years of the post-World-War-II baby boom.
With the right policies, this economy has another, generation-long, 25-year boom just waiting inside it yearning to break out, once it is freed from the bonds of Obamanomics that have held it back.
What these bonuses foster, instead, is an ultra-expensive environment inhospitable to more middle-class employment, although it does create a boom market for low-end service workers.
Some of the newest high-end rental buildings were originally designed as boom-era condominiums and converted when sales were slow.
"Given where we've been -- we've been in a huge boom -- it will feel to a lot of us like a recession, without there statistically being one, " said Allen Sinai, president of the advisory and research firm Primark Decision Economics and an informal adviser to both Democratic and Republican administrations.
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While debate continues over whether and how stimulus dollars should be used, the Tri-Cities area that surrounds the Hanford site -- which includes Richland, Kennewick and Pasco -- is reaping the benefits of the clean-up boom.
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?
Why is the United States still locked in this self-perpetuating boom-bust cycle in clean energy?
But the post-war boom in lager - outstripping traditional tipples like bitter, mild and stout - offers some clues as to what made the drink so appealing to millions in the first place.
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.
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