Retail spending in Western Australia has hit its highest level on record, in seasonally adjusted terms, with September expenditure more than $ 2.8 billion; yet growth is well down from the heights of the boom. (businessnews.com.au)
Anyway, interbank lending dried up when the crisis hit, as banks would no longer trust each other (they sure were «fully loaned up» at the height of the boom and it was not difficult to conclude for a bank at the time of the bust that all the other banks were in the same position of technical insolvency). (acting-man.com)
I started writing this book at the height of the boom (remember the boom?) (bookbrowse.com)