Sentences with phrase «long boom»

The year 2000 holds the distinction of having been the dead center of a decade - long boom in existing - home sales.

«These ideas and others are now the standard way of doing business but for the fact that these are no longer boom years and they no longer work, quite frankly,» Sinek said.

In particular, a massive overhang of debt from a decade - long boom when economic growth was based on unsustainable household borrowing, unrealistic house prices, dangerously high banking leverage, and a failure of governments to put their public finances in order.

Old Dutch man has an ambitious plan to try to clean plastic from the ocean by installing long booms in the water, near the so.

On the opposite cup resides the 175 mm long boom mic, a sturdy, large beast with relatively stiff movement.

Mexico's auto industry is in the midst of a decade - long boom in production.

There was another long boom - very different in its shape and in the division of the spoils - that also lasted for a quarter of a century, between 1982 and 2007.

The longer the boom continues, the greater the risk of a contraction.

-- Peter Schwartz and Peter Leyden, in «The Long Boom: A History of the Future,» Wired, July 1997

The weakness in both cities marks the start of a reversal in the long boom for Canadian real estate.

The federal credit, first enacted in the 1990s and extended half a dozen times over the years, has helped trigger a long boom in wind energy.

As these long booms age, markets tend to simultaneously narrow, and get ahead of themselves.

According to the Laffer Center, these policies «contributed to the longest boom in United States history.»

The Perma Bulls, like most Wall Street strategists, are always looking up as they wait for the next New Paradigm and Long Boom.

In its recent release, The Long Boom: What China's Rebalancing Means for Australia's Future, the Australia China Business Council says one in 58 Australian workplaces are now engaged directly in exports to China and the integration of our economy with China's is about to enter an intense phase as the Chinese government ramps up its «accelerated rebalancing» project.

The number of households in which no one works rose dramatically during the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s, rising from seven per cent in 1975 to almost 20 % today, never having dipped significantly throughout the long boom.

Spending was tackled, the unions were contained, the City was unleashed, and a series of important supply - side reforms helped to deliver a long boom; and when the exhausted and fractious Tories were eventually chucked out in 1997, it was Labour that profited — politically — from those reforms.

Likewise in the year 2000 a book came out called «The Long Boom» predicting that we were halfway through a 40 year period of unprecedented economic growth that would last until 2020.

Through the long boom, that pact seemed to be working.

New Labour squandered the opportunity the greatest and longest boom in history should have offered to heal our broken society.

A large, drum - shaped cutting tool at the end of a long boom will be able to cut up to 6,000 tons of sulfide rock a day from the seafloor, chopping it into nuggets of an inch or less.

SIM will have a set of seven one - foot - wide mirrors strung along a 30 - foot - long boom that will fold up for launching.

This week in the Hague, the team unveiled their latest prototype, a 100 - metre - long boom that, predictably, acquired its name in a Twitter contest.

Vinyl records have witnessed a decade - long boom in popularity (more than 200,000 newly pressed records are sold each week in the United States), while sales of instant - film cameras, paper notebooks, board games and Broadway tickets are all growing again.

After a long boom period, state and federal governments stopped treating growth in asset values as a birthright, granting them a seemingly unlimited stream of taxes from capital gains, property, and transfer taxes.

The longer the boom continues, the greater the risk of a contraction.

The first signs of a fossil - fuel bust emerged early last year with growing evidence that the decade - long boom in global coal demand was peaking.

In part, it's due to a decades - long boom in natural gas, which is not only easier and cheaper to produce than coal but also significantly less reliant on government subsidies.

Next came a decades - long boom in residential development.

With just a slight blip in 2000, the residential real estate market enjoyed a decade - long boom.

New home prices also continued to rise in October as the red - hot Toronto market offset cooling elsewhere, extending the long boom in Canadian house prices even as analysts brace for a slowdown after government moves to rein in mortgage lending.