Sentences with phrase «period of economic boom»

It's based on an asset that has increased in value every single year for more than 160 years, through every period of economic boom and bust, including the Great Depression.

Whereas Austrian economists believe that government interventions cause the periods of economic boom and bust known as business cycles, Keynesian economists believe that recessions and depressions are unavoidable and that an activist central bank can mitigate fluctuations in the business cycle.

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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.

It is hard, perhaps, to identify when you are in the midst of them the periods of booming economic success such as Eisenhower's.

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.

Despite these hardships, the average American was healthier during this period than during the economic booms that preceded and followed it, according to social researcher José Tapia Granados and his co-author Ana Diez Roux, both of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

This lesson covers the economic boom and looks at the main causes, exploring how and why the 1920s in the USA was considered a period of prosperity.

Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth.

One persuasive theory proposed by economist Richard Easterlin is that the postwar period witnessed a combination of two basic forces which encouraged optimism and relaxed earlier constraints on marriage and having children: an unprecedented demand for goods and services otherwise known as the postwar economic boom; and an accompanying shortage of labor.

Arte Povera came of age in the context of the «Italian miracle» economic boom and the subsequent student and workers revolts of 1968, motivated by an urge to revolt not only against the primacy of painting in the postwar period, but also against the emerging consumer culture.

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.

In the postwar period, law business boomed as Canada rode an economic expansion that lasted nearly a quarter of a century.