Their critical boom-bust elements were quite similar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wages of Sin] Reference

Clearly, we don't need more boom-bust economic turbulence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Leopold: Fear and Looting in America: Be Happy as Wall Street walks off with Your Money] Reference

But others were innocent victims of the boom-bust dynamics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questions for the Fed] Reference

The periodic crises were part of a larger boom-bust process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eben Esterhuizen: Recession Fear and Dollar Loathing in Las Vegas] Reference

The endless boom-bust cycle -- I've been through eight of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Moore's Law to Barrett's Rules] Reference

Stock markets often give rise to a boom-bust process, or bubble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bubble of American Supremacy] Reference

Capitalism's history displays repeated boom-bust cycles punctuated by bubbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Global Economic Crisis - Bad and Worsening] Reference

This boom-bust cycle of military recruitment has been around for decades, she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too fat to fight? Military recruits and obesity] Reference

In short, the boom-bust sequences, the bubbles, are endemic to the financial system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathan Gardels: My Interview with George Soros: End of Financial Crisis Could Be in Sight] Reference

What is not familiar is the scale of the devastation wrought in this boom-bust cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Prevent Bubbles, Restrain the Fed] Reference

Rents and occupancy have suffered in boom-bust markets such as Phoenix and Orlando, Fla.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mall Vacancies Grow as Retailers Pack Up Shop] Reference

To understand why, it's important first to remember that boom-bust cycles are nothing new.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bigger Than Ever] Reference

Usually there has to be a flaw in people's perceptions to set a boom-bust sequence into motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview Excerpts: Volcker, Soros,] Reference

VELSHI: Well, California has been in a boom-bust situation I think since sometimes in the 1800s.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 18, 2009] Reference

Lumber has historically been a boom-bust business, with cycles largely tied to the housing market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisiana-Pacific Posts Loss] Reference

We have this boom-bust cycle in coffee, which I wish I knew a solution to, that I could wave a magic wand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World] Reference

The long-haired rat has a similar "boom-bust" cycle, irrupting in vast plagues following favorable rainfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mitchell grass downs] Reference

Many partyers are against the bailouts too, as small business owners in areas victimized by the boom-bust cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [John O'Kane: Tea Party Fantasies] Reference

"There usually has to be a flaw in people's perceptions to set a boom-bust sequence into motion," Mr. Soros says.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Mortgage Crisis] Reference

The driving force behind each one of these boom-bust cycles can be described in three words ... "too much credit.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nail In Our Economic Coffin] Reference

Once prices return to a favorable level, the Fed begins to reduce rates again and the managed boom-bust cycle repeats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Pento: There is Only One Cure for a Depression] Reference

It's that time of the year again: The annual boom-bust cycle for India's cement makers is reaching its predictable peak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Cement Is Weak] Reference

Or the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, which sent South Korea, Indonesia and other countries on a boom-bust roller coaster?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beware the Bailout] Reference

Under Keynesian economics, governments should run deficits during bad times to even out the boom-bust cycles in the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jindal Lesson: Keeping Those Republicans Out of Power] Reference

Given the central part played by commercial banks in damaging boom-bust cycles, some might view this control as a good thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banking on Beijing] Reference

Most of the layoff victims left the business for good, while the industry's boom-bust reputation scared away potential recruits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil Industry Strives To Limit Its Layoffs] Reference

Alaska's a young state, boom-bust state, place for opportunity and a certain amount of risk-taking defines most of the population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alaska Reacts To Sen. Stevens' Conviction] Reference

Occasionally, a misconception is reinforced by a trend prevailing in reality, and that is when a boom-bust process gets under way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bubble of American Supremacy] Reference

Not only has this limited the return for investors, Mr. Woolley says, it has amplified mispricings and encouraged boom-bust market swings.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Save Investors From Themselves] Reference

Dr. Galbraith seeks to identify the common elements that recur organically in the buildup and aftermath of every financial boom-bust episode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taibbi's Scream: Stop the Political System That Lets Goldman Sachs and Others Run Roughshod Over Society] Reference

Credit creation and contraction are reflexive and tend to occur in initially self-reinforcing but eventually self-defeating boom-bust sequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Soros: A Plan for Economic Recovery] Reference

If global markets are to bring the benefits we believe they can, we simply must find a way to tame the pattern of boom-bust on an international scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President To 1998 World Bank Imf] Reference

I would note that many of the topics on this blog are currently revolving around whether the boom-bust, boom-bust rollercoaster is overall good for the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberal Hero Ron Paul: Blacks Commit Crimes, Zionists Silence The Opposition] Reference

We then believed light-regulation capitalists such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, that they could convert boom-bust into an upward sloping plane of glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: Where Are the Economists?] Reference

One is to develop a financial system that doesn't go through a boom-bust cycle in the world in the way that we experienced, and others experienced here, many years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President At Schumer Reception] Reference

Once envied for its preternaturally low expenses, the bank stumbled on high real-estate losses, making it one of the most spectacular boom-bust banks of the credit crunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overheard] Reference

And where inflating the money supply does not eventually lead to consumer price increases, it does lead to asset price increases which foster a stronger boom-bust tendency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward Harrison: Thoughts on Hyperinflation in the USA] Reference