Sentences with phrase «past economic booms»

The state's rural settlements are often leftovers of past economic booms — rubber in the 19th century and a gold rush in the mid-20th — and their remote locations reflect the demands of those now dilapidated industries.

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The debt boom over the past few decades has been a big economic stimulant.

In the past decade, our flexibility has meant that we have been able to maintain economic stability through the biggest investment boom in the resources sector in more than a century, and the subsequent unwinding of that boom.

In other words, the gold / GYX ratio (gold relative to the Industrial Metals Index) tends to fall during the booms, which are periods when economic confidence rises while mal - investment sets the stage for an economic contraction, and rise during the busts, which are periods when the mistakes of the past come to the fore.

As discussed above, in the past when credit and asset price booms have ended, they have often resulted in financial and economic instability, with banks suffering losses and the business and household sectors cutting back spending as they repair their balance sheets.

Despite economic booms and busts, however, a majority of Americans have maintained an investment in the markets in the past 15 years.

Hence Rabbit's constant remembrance of things past: his fading stardom as a high school basketball hero in Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania; his youthful marriage to the store - clerk Janice Springer; their many sexual felicities and infidelities; the deaths that each so horribly caused in their own house; their moral enmeshment in the lives of their friends and families, especially their elderly parents and their own son Nelson; Rabbit's jobs as a typesetter and car dealer, and now Janice's belated career in real estate; their financial prosperity during the boom of the «70s when they bought vacation homes in Florida and the Poconos; now their fear of economic ruin amidst the coming Depression.

Ross Williams, founder and chairman of WhiteLabelDating.com, says its database of members has grown by 250 % to over 1m in the UK, and overall annualised revenues have increased by 450 % to over # 12m in the past 12 months as the dating sector booms in the economic gloom.

Mountains May Depart (Shan He Gu Ren) Jia Zhang - ke, China / France / Japan, North American Premiere The new film from master filmmaker Jia Zhang - ke (A Touch of Sin) jumps from the recent past to the speculative near - future as it examines how China's economic boom has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

Zhangke Jia)-- North American Premiere The new film from Mainland master Jia Zhang - ke (A Touch of Sin) jumps from the recent past to the speculative near - future as it examines how China's economic boom has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

Others warn that major emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil, which in the past have served as an economic boom to the West's bust, now are softening as well and can not be counted on, at least in the short term, to provide a safe haven for exports.

Wen Jiabao is planning a trip to India, and Balram believes he's the one who can show The Premier the real India - not just the glitzy, rich «New India» that has grown up in the economic boom of the past decade or so.

Accordingly, only when we recognise that monetary central planning is the ultimate source of our financial and economic distemper, and when it either collapses or is consigned to the dustbin of history, and when 100 % - reserve banking and sound money replace fractional reserve and central banking and fiat currency, will the ruinous cycle of boom and bust become as thing of the past.

American Lawyer reporter David Bario writes that in past periods of economic upheaval — both in recessions and booms — firms have cut back on pro bono.

The UAE has recorded one of the highest population growth rates in the world over the past two decades, sustained by an economic boom as the UAE grew its petroleum production capacity and diversified its revenue base into tourism, trade and services.

Amid widespread falling values, a large shadow inventory, and general economic uncertainty, perhaps the biggest positive development in the real estate industry in the past year has been the booming rental market.