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| economic boom and bust: Boom and Bust William Quinn, John D. Turner, 2020-08-06 Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks. |
| economic boom and bust: Boom and Bust Banking David M. Beckworth, 2012 Exploring the forceful renewal of the boom-and-bust cycle after several decades of economic stability, this book is a research-based review of the factors that caused the 2008 recession. It offers cutting-edge diagnoses of the recession and prescriptions on how to boost the economy from leading economists. The book concentrates on the Federal Reserve and its leading role in creating the economic boom and recession of the 2000s. Aimed at professional economists and readers well versed in the basic workings of the economy, it includes innovative proposals on how to avoid future boom-and-bust cycles. |
| economic boom and bust: Brazil Mr.Antonio Spilimbergo, Mr.Krishna Srinivasan, 2019-03-14 Brazil is at crossroads, emerging slowly from a historic recession that was preceded by a huge economic boom. Reasons for the historic bust following a boom are manifold. Policy mistakes were an important contributory factor, and included the pursuit of countercyclical policies, introduced to deal with the effects of the global financial crisis, beyond the point where they were helpful. More fundamentally, it reflects longstanding structural weaknesses plaguing the economy, that also help explain Brazil’s uninspiring growth performance over the past four decades. |
| economic boom and bust: Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico A. W. Maldonado, 2021-08-01 Who is to blame for the economic and political crisis in Puerto Rico—the United States or Puerto Rico? This book provides a fascinating historical perspective on the problem and an unequivocal answer on who is to blame. In this engaging and approachable book, journalist A. W. Maldonado charts the rise and fall of the Puerto Rican economy and explains how a litany of bad political and fiscal policy decisions in Washington and Puerto Rico destroyed an economic miracle. Under Operation Bootstrap in the 1950s and '60s, the rapid transformation and industrialization of the Puerto Rican economy was considered a “wonder of human history,” a far cry from the economic “death spiral” the island’s governor described in 2015. Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico is the story of how the demise of an obscure tax policy that encouraged investment and economic growth led to escalating budget deficits and the government’s shocking default of its $70 billion debt. Maldonado also discusses the extent of the devastation from Hurricane Maria in 2017, the massive street protests during 2019, and the catastrophic earthquakes in January 2020. After illuminating the century of misunderstanding between Puerto Rico and the United States—the root cause of the economic crisis and the island’s gridlocked debates about its political status—Maldonado concludes with projections about the future of the relationship. He argues that, in the end, the economic, fiscal, and political crises are the result of the breakdown and failure of Puerto Rican self-government. Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico is written for a wide audience, including students, economists, politicians, and general readers, all of whom will find it interesting and thought provoking. |
| economic boom and bust: Crash! Phillip G. Payne, 2015-12-01 The irrationally exuberant highs and lows of the 1920s can help students recognize boom and bust cycles past, present, and future. Speculation—an economic reality for centuries—is a hallmark of the modern U.S. economy. But how does speculation work? Is it really caused, as some insist, by popular delusions and the madness of crowds, or do failed regulations play a greater part? And why is it that investors never seem to learn the lessons of past speculative bubbles? Crash! explores these questions by examining the rise and fall of the American economy in the 1920s. Phillip G. Payne frames the story of the 1929 stock market crash within the booming New Era economy of the 1920s and the bust of the Great Depression. Taking into account the emotional drivers of the consumer market, he offers a clear, concise explanation of speculation's complex role in creating one of the greatest financial panics in U. S. history. Crash! explains how postWorld War I changes in the global financial markets transformed the world economy, examines the role of boosters and politicians in promoting speculation, and describes in detail the disastrous aftermath of the 1929 panic. Payne's book will help students recognize the telltale signs of bubbles and busts, so that they may become savvier consumers and investors. |
| economic boom and bust: Boom and Bust Alex J. Pollock, 2010-11-16 While the recent economic crisis was a painful period for many Americans, the panic surrounding the downturn was fueled by an incomplete understanding of economic history. Economic hysteria made for riveting journalism and effective political theater, but the politicians and members of the media who declared that America was in the midst of the greatest financial calamity since the Great Depression were as wrong and misguided as the expansionists of the Roosevelt era. In reality the cyclical nature of market economies is as old as the markets themselves. In a free market system, financial downturns inevitably accompany economic prosperity-but the overall trend is upward progress in living standards and national wealth. While it is helpful to understand what caused the recent crisis, the more important questions to consider are 'What makes the 'boom and bust' cycle so predictable?' and 'What are the ethical responsibilities of the citizens of a free market economy?' In Boom and Bust: Financial Cycles and Human Prosperity, Alex J. Pollock argues that while economic downturns can be frightening and difficult, people living in free market economies enjoy greater health, better access to basic necessities, better education, work less arduous jobs, and have more choices and wider horizons than people at any other point in history. This wonderful reality would not exist in the absence of financial cycles. This book explains why. |
| economic boom and bust: The Housing Boom and Bust Thomas Sowell, 2009-05-12 Explains how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The creative financing of home mortgages and creative marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up--and then collapsed. |
| economic boom and bust: Boom-bust Cycles and Financial Liberalization Aaron Tornell, Frank Westermann, 2005 Analysis and evidence of how the factors that give rise to boom-bust cycles in fast-growing developing economies also enhance long-run growth. The volatility that has hit many middle-income countries (MICs) after liberalizing their financial markets has prompted critics to call for new policies to stabilize these boom-bust cycles. But, as Aaron Tornell and Frank Westermann point out in this book, over the last two decades most of the developing countries that have experienced lending booms and busts have also exhibited the fastest growth among MICs. Countries with more stable credit growth, by contrast, have exhibited, on average, lower growth rates. Factors that contribute to financial fragility thus appear, paradoxically, to be a source of long-run growth as well. Tornell and Westermann analyze boom-bust cycles in the developing world and discuss how these cycles are generated by credit market imperfections. They explain why the financial liberalization that allows countries to overcome imperfections impeding rapid growth also generates the financial fragility that leads to greater volatility and occasional crises. The conceptual framework they present illustrates this linkage and allows Tornell and Westermann to address normative questions regarding liberalization policies.The authors also characterize key macroeconomic regularities observed across MICs, showing that credit markets play a key role not only in boom-bust episodes but in the strong credit channel observed during tranquil times. A theoretical framework is then presented that explains how credit market imperfections can account for these empirical patterns. Finally, Tornell and Westermann provide microeconomic evidence on the credit market imperfections that drive the results of the theoretical framework, finding that asymmetries between tradables and nontradables are key to understanding the patterns in MIC data. |
| economic boom and bust: Booms and Busts: An Encyclopedia of Economic History from the First Stock Market Crash of 1792 to the Current Global Economic Crisis Mehmet Odekon, 2015-03-17 This timely and authoritative set explores three centuries of good times and hard times in major economies throughout the world. More than 400 signed articles cover events from Tulipmania during the 1630s to the U.S. federal stimulus package of 2009, and introduce readers to underlying concepts, recurring themes, major institutions, and notable figures. Written in a clear, accessible style, Booms and Busts provides vital insight and perspective for students, teachers, librarians, and the general public - anyone interested in understanding the historical precedents, causes, and effects of the global economic crisis. Special features include a chronology of major booms and busts through history, a glossary of economic terms, a guide to further research, an appendix of primary documents, a topic finder, and a comprehensive index. It features 1,050 pages; three volumes; 8-1/2 X 11; topic finder; photos; chronology; glossary; primary documents; bibliography; and, index. |
| economic boom and bust: Business Cycle Economics Todd A. Knoop, 2015-02-17 Presents the empirical data of business cycles and the theories that economists have developed to explain and prevent them, and considers case studies of recessions and depressions in the United States and internationally. Despite more than two centuries of debate, a definitive explanation of the causes of economic cycles still does not exist. Economists, politicians, and policymakers have argued many well-known theories as to why these peaks and slumps occur, and cyclical recessions and depressions continue in spite of the enormous intellectual reserves working to prevent them. This timely analysis presents a comprehensive overview of global economics, assessing older theories alongside of new ways of thinking to reveal the empirical methods needed to evaluate, forecast, and prevent future crises. Educator and economist Todd Knoop provides explanations of influential macroeconomic theories that have shaped modern economics, such as Keynesian economics, Neoclassical economics, Austrian economics, and New Keynesian economics. In addition, he considers case studies of specific recessions and depressions, beginning with the Great Depression through the East Asian crisis and Great Recession in Japan and culminating with a detailed examination of the European debt crisis and the 2008 global financial crisis. The work concludes with a look at the insights gained from these fiscal events as well as the major questions that still remain unanswered as a result of these crises. |
| economic boom and bust: The Flexible Stance Bill Conerly, 2016-01-02 Visualize a baseball game. A fast runner is on first base, looking to steal second. The runner takes a lead, then plants himself in a flexible stance. He's ready to run in either direction: to second base if he gets a chance to steal, or back to first base if the pitcher tries to pick him off. Using that stance in business is the subject of Dr. Bill Conerly's latest book, The Flexible Stance: Thriving in a Boom/Bust Economy.The economic outlook is uncertain--this year and in the future. Economists failed to predict the recessions of 2008, 2001, 1990 and 1982. Technology is changing faster than ever before, forcing businesses to confront different consumer demands as well as new production processes. Social attitudes also change faster in a more connected world. Gay marriage, marijuana and GMOs are all cases where public thinking changed rapidly. New competitors are springing up, such as Amazon in industrial supplies and Uber versus taxis. On top of these issues, government policy has moved in unprecedented directions, with highly uncertain results.The flexible stance is hard for business leaders, who usually rose to top positions using the sprinter's stance: focus on the tape 100 meters away, looking neither left nor right. Traditional corporate planning tries to develop the one perfect forecast of the future, then optimizes the company for that scenario. Unfortunately, the future often does not cooperate.Techniques for a more flexible stance include evaluating everyday decisions with an eye to whether they enable adjustment to change or inhibit adjustment. Contingency plans should be developed for both upside and downside possibilities. Faster execution reduces risk. Diversification can increase flexibility sometimes--but not always. The successful business leaders of the future will be humble about their ability to predict the future, but aggressive in developing flexibility to thrive whatever the future brings. |
| economic boom and bust: Property Boom and Banking Bust Colin Jones, Stewart Cowe, Edward Trevillion, 2018-01-09 A fascinating analysis of the critical role commercial property investment played in the economic boom and bust during the global financial crisis The unprecedented financial boom stretching from the mid-1990s through 2008 ultimately led to the deepest recession in modern times and one of the slowest economic recoveries in history. It also resulted in the emergence of the draconian austerity policies that have swept across Europe in recent years. Property Boom and Banking Bust offers an expert insight into the complex property market dynamics that contributed to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 and its devastating economic consequences. It is the first book to focus on a woefully underreported dimension of the crisis, namely, the significant role that lending on commercial property development played in the crisis. Among other key topics, the authors explore the philosophical and behavioral factors that propelled irresponsible bank lending and the property boom; how it led to the downfall of the banks; the impact of the credit crunch on the real estate industry generally in the wake of the financial crisis; the catastrophic effects the property bust had on property investors, both large and small; and how the financial institutions have sought to recover in the wake of the financial crisis. Provides valuable insights into what happened in previous booms and busts, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, and how they compare with the most recent one Offers an expert assessment of the consequences of the global financial crisis for the banking system and the commercial property industry Examines strategies banks have used to recover their positions and manage the overhang of indebtedness and bad property assets Addresses strategies the real estate industry have used to recover from the collapse in property values Written in an accessible style, and featuring numerous insider case accounts from property bankers, Property Boom and Banking Bust disentangles the complex, tightly-woven factors that led to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, while offering powerful lessons for property industry professionals on how to avoid having history repeat itself. |
| economic boom and bust: Crash! Phillip G. Payne, 2015-12 Most measures of the American economy over the past two centuries or so produce a jagged sine wave--irrationally exuberant highs leading to painful lows. Bubbles lead to panics, over and over again. Payne has written a short book on the 1920s to demonstrate to undergraduates how this pattern emerges, especially how the highs get to be so high--specifically during the 1920s, which seem to offer instructive examples of the worst practices and circumstances. This How Things Worked volume explains market mechanisms, popular pressures, and the workings or failings of regulation. While every drop in the economy has its peculiar features, that of 1929 has the markings of a classic--Provided by publisher. |
| economic boom and bust: Iceland and the International Financial Crisis Eirikur Bergmann, 2014-01-30 Eirikur Bergmann explains the exceptional case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash of 2008 and explores the lessons for the wider EU crisis and for over-reaching economies that over-rely on financial markets. |
| economic boom and bust: Boom and Bust Christopher Wood, 1989 An account of the financial world's coming collapse. |
| economic boom and bust: Commodity Terms of Trade International Monetary Fund, 2009-09-01 We compile a historical dataset covering nearly 40 years of booms and busts in the commodity terms of trade of over 150 countries. We discuss the characteristics of these events and their effects on macroeconomic performance and, in particular, compare the most recent commodity-price cycle with its historical precedents. |
| economic boom and bust: Principles Ray Dalio, 2018-08-07 #1 New York Times Bestseller “Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” —The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals. In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. Dalio himself has been named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater’s exceptionally effective culture, which he describes as “an idea meritocracy that strives to achieve meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical transparency.” It is these principles, and not anything special about Dalio—who grew up an ordinary kid in a middle-class Long Island neighborhood—that he believes are the reason behind his success. In Principles, Dalio shares what he’s learned over the course of his remarkable career. He argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be systemized into rules and understood like machines. The book’s hundreds of practical lessons, which are built around his cornerstones of “radical truth” and “radical transparency,” include Dalio laying out the most effective ways for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges, and build strong teams. He also describes the innovative tools the firm uses to bring an idea meritocracy to life, such as creating “baseball cards” for all employees that distill their strengths and weaknesses, and employing computerized decision-making systems to make believability-weighted decisions. While the book brims with novel ideas for organizations and institutions, Principles also offers a clear, straightforward approach to decision-making that Dalio believes anyone can apply, no matter what they’re seeking to achieve. Here, from a man who has been called both “the Steve Jobs of investing” and “the philosopher king of the financial universe” (CIO magazine), is a rare opportunity to gain proven advice unlike anything you’ll find in the conventional business press. |
| economic boom and bust: Money Mania Bob Swarup, 2014-02-25 From ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown of 2008, this account of financial crises throughout history reveals the common human foibles that drive economic booms and busts. |
| economic boom and bust: Boom, Bust and Crisis John Peters, 2012 Over the past decade, Canadians have experienced wild economic swings: an economic boom followed by massive layoffs in traditional industries and a wrenching economic crisis. What have these changes meant for Canadian workers? Bad jobs? Weaker unions? Worsening health? If so, why? Boom, Bust, and Crisis addresses these questions by surveying how work has changed across Canada, from the auto and steel industries of Ontario, to the tar sands of Northern Alberta and First Nations casinos in Saskatchewan. This edited collection explains the massive lay-offs in unionized manufacturing industries, the expansion of low-wage work and the rise of increasingly aggressive employers by critically examining Canada's political economy and assessing the impact of government policy and labour market deregulation on Canada's workers. The book also explores the recent policy changes to employment standards and health and safety protection in the context of neoliberal globalization. Written by leading political scientists, sociologists and journalists in concise, accessible language, this volume provides a rich and vibrant assessment of why some businesses have boomed while others have failed and why, through it all, Canadian workers have paid the price. |
| economic boom and bust: Boom, Bust, Exodus Chad Broughton, 2015 Recounts the closing of Maytag's Galesburg, Illinois plant and its relocation to Reynosa, Mexico, and details how the economic shift affected individuals in both cities. |
| economic boom and bust: The Economics of World War I Stephen Broadberry, Mark Harrison, 2005-09-29 This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war. |
| economic boom and bust: Boom, Bust, Boom Bill Carter, 2021-08-31 A sweeping account of civilization's dependence on copper traces the industry's history, culture and economics while exploring such topics as the dangers posed to communities living near mines, its ubiquitous use in electronics and the activities of the London Metal Exchange. By the author of Fools Rush In. 30,000 first printing. |
| economic boom and bust: The Boom and the Bubble Robert Brenner, 2003-11-17 Brenner demonstrates that the new economy was always a fragile phenomenon. |
| economic boom and bust: Economic News Arjen van Dalen, Helle Svensson, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Erik Albæk, Claes H. de Vreese, 2018-10-26 This book tells the story of how the news media can help the inattentive members of the public become better educated and knowledgeable ‘economic citizens’. The authors argue that changes in the economy, journalism and consumer culture have made economic news more visible, more mainstream and more accessible. They show how economic news not only affects economic perceptions, but also interest in the economy, knowledge about the economy, and economic voting. Relying on statistical analyses, the book provides a comprehensive and systematic study of the effects of economic news. |
| economic boom and bust: Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through Duncan Weldon, 2021-08-26 'Here's the history that really matters' Financial Times The UK is, at the same time, both one of the world's most successful economies and one of Europe's laggards. The country contains some of Western Europe's richest areas such as the south east of England, but also some of its poorest such as the north east or Wales. It's really not much of an exaggeration to describe the UK, in economic terms, as 'Portugal but with Singapore in the bottom corner'. Looking into the past helps understand why. Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through tells the story of how Britain's economy and politics have interacted with each other from the time of the Industrial Revolution right up to the pandemic of 2020. A few politicians, such as Peel, Gladstone, Attlee and Thatcher have managed to shape the economy but far more have been shaped by it. Depressing little in British economic debate is really new. This time is rarely, if ever, really different. The debates about the balance between economic openness and sovereignty that re-emerged after Brexit would have been familiar to Peel and Cobden in the 1840s. The size of the government's deficit has dominated politics since 2010 but fretting about the scale of the national debt was almost a national pastime during Victoria's reign. Worries about the failure of vocational training and a paranoia that German manufacturing was powering ahead were common in the days of Lloyd George and Asquith. Supposedly modern concerns about the impacts of new technology on jobs and inequality date back to at least Captain Swing and Ned Ludd. As the economy emerges from the Covid-19 recession and sets out on a new post-Brexit future an understanding of the past is vital to seeing how the future might play out. |
| economic boom and bust: It Didn't Have to Be This Way Harry Veryser, 2023-12-12 Excellent . . . I highly recommend this book. —RON PAUL Why is the boom-and-bust cycle so persistent? Why did economists fail to predict the economic meltdown that began in 2007—or to pull us out of the crisis more quickly? And how can we prevent future calamities? Mainstream economics has no adequate answers for these pressing questions. To understand how we got here, and how we can ensure prosperity, we must turn to an alternative to the dominant approach: the Austrian School of economics. Unfortunately, few people have even a vague understanding of the Austrian School, despite the prominence of leading figures such as Nobel Prize winner F. A. Hayek, author of The Road to Serfdom. Harry C. Veryser corrects that problem in this powerful and eye-opening book. In presenting the Austrian School’s perspective, he reveals why the boom-and-bust cycle is unnatural and unnecessary. Veryser tells the fascinating (but frightening) story of how our modern economic condition developed. The most recent recession, far from being an isolated incident, was part of a larger cycle that has been the scourge of the West for a century—a cycle rooted in government manipulation of markets and currency. The lesson is clear: the devastation of the recent economic crisis—and of stagflation in the 1970s, and of the Great Depression in the 1930s—could have been avoided. It didn’t have to be this way. Too long unappreciated, the Austrian School of economics reveals the crucial conditions for a successful economy and points the way to a free, prosperous, and humane society. |
| economic boom and bust: Boom Bust Fred Harrison, 2010 Annotation Using the United Kingdom as a case study, this well-researched account shows how, for more than 200 years, a remarkably regular 18-year cycle of boom and bust can be traced to the peaks and troughs in land prices. This exploration reveals how governments, during the upswing of the cycle, are complicit in encouraging a belief that property prices will continue upwards indefinitely because of their skilled management of the economy and attributes the current crises to public policy on both sides of the Atlantic. An alternative plan to neutralize the next boomone that would lead to a more stable and environmentally friendly economy with a more equitable distribution of wealthis also presented. |
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| economic boom and bust: A Political Economy of American Hegemony Thomas Oatley, 2015-02-23 This book demonstrates that episodes of major financial instability develop when the United States engages in large deficit-financed military buildup. |
| economic boom and bust: Transatlantic Speculations Hannah Catherine Davies, 2018-11-20 The year 1873 was one of financial crisis. A boom in railway construction had spurred a bull market—but when the boom turned to bust, transatlantic panic quickly became a worldwide economic downturn. In Transatlantic Speculations, Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on the panics of 1873 and nineteenth-century globalization by exploring the ways in which contemporaries experienced a tumultuous period that profoundly challenged notions of economic and moral order. Considering the financial crises of 1873 from the vantage points of Berlin, New York, and Vienna, Davies maps what she calls the dual “transatlantic speculations” of the 1870s: the financial speculation that led to these panics as well as the interpretative speculations that sprouted in their wake. Drawing on a wide variety of sources—including investment manuals, credit reports, business correspondence, newspapers, and legal treatises—she analyzes how investors were prompted to put their money into faraway enterprises, how journalists and bankers created and spread financial information and disinformation, how her subjects made and experienced financial flows, and how responses ranged from policy reform to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories when these flows suddenly were interrupted. Davies goes beyond national frames of analysis to explore international economic entanglement, using the panics’ interconnectedness to shed light on contemporary notions of the world economy. Blending cultural, intellectual, and legal history, Transatlantic Speculations gives vital transnational and comparative perspective on a crucial moment for financial markets, globalization, and capitalism. |
| economic boom and bust: What Happens During Recessions, Crunches and Busts? Mr.Ayhan Kose, Mr.Stijn Claessens, Mr.Marco Terrones, 2008-12-01 We provide a comprehensive empirical characterization of the linkages between key macroeconomic and financial variables around business and financial cycles for 21 OECD countries over the period 1960–2007. In particular, we analyze the implications of 122 recessions, 112 (28) credit contraction (crunch) episodes, 114 (28) episodes of house price declines (busts), 234 (58) episodes of equity price declines (busts) and their various overlaps in these countries over the sample period. Our results indicate that interactions between macroeconomic and financial variables can play major roles in determining the severity and duration of recessions. Specifically, we find evidence that recessions associated with credit crunches and house price busts tend to be deeper and longer than other recessions. JEL Classification Numbers: E32; E44; E51; F42 |
| economic boom and bust: Crude Volatility Robert McNally, 2017-01-17 As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude Volatility explains how past periods of stability and volatility in oil prices help us understand the new boom-bust era. Oil's notorious volatility has always been considered a scourge afflicting not only the oil industry but also the broader economy and geopolitical landscape; Robert McNally makes sense of how oil became so central to our world and why it is subject to such extreme price fluctuations. Tracing a history marked by conflict, intrigue, and extreme uncertainty, McNally shows how—even from the oil industry's first years—wild and harmful price volatility prompted industry leaders and officials to undertake extraordinary efforts to stabilize oil prices by controlling production. Herculean market interventions—first, by Rockefeller's Standard Oil, then, by U.S. state regulators in partnership with major international oil companies, and, finally, by OPEC—succeeded to varying degrees in taming the beast. McNally, a veteran oil market and policy expert, explains the consequences of the ebbing of OPEC's power, debunking myths and offering recommendations—including mistakes to avoid—as we confront the unwelcome return of boom and bust oil prices. |
| economic boom and bust: The Roller Coaster Economy Howard J. Sherman, 2009-12-28 Written by one of the foremost experts on the business cycle, this is a compelling and engaging explanation of how and why the economic downturn of 2007 became the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009. Author Howard Sherman explores the root causes of the cycle of boom and bust of the economy, focusing on the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession of 2008-2009. He makes a powerful argument that recessions and the resulting painful involuntary unemployment are inherent in capitalism itself. Sherman clearly illustrates the mechanisms of business cycles, and he provides a thoughtful alternative that would rein in their destructive effects. |
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| economic boom and bust: Desert America Rubén Martínez, 2012-08-07 A brilliantly illuminating portrait of the twenty-first-century West—a book as vast, diverse, and unexpected as the land and the people, from one of our foremost chroniclers of migration The economic boom—and the devastation left in its wake—has been writ nowhere as large as on the West, the most iconic of American landscapes. Over the last decade the West has undergone a political and demographic upheaval comparable only to the opening of the frontier. Now, in Desert America, a work of powerful reportage and memoir, Rubén Martínez, acclaimed author of Crossing Over, evokes a new world of extremes: outrageous wealth and devastating poverty, sublime beauty and ecological ruin. In northern New Mexico, an epidemic of drug addiction flourishes in the shadow of some of the country's richest zip codes; in Joshua Tree, California, gentrification displaces people and history. In Marfa, Texas, an exclusive enclave triggers a race war near the banks of the Rio Grande. And on the Tohono O'odham reservation, Native Americans hunt down Mexican migrants crossing the most desolate stretch of the border. With each desert story, Martínez explores his own encounter with the West and his love for this most contested region. In the process, he reveals that the great frontier is now a harbinger of the vast disparities that are redefining the very idea of America. |
| economic boom and bust: Poverty in the Philippines Asian Development Bank, 2009-12-01 Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis and rising food, fuel, and commodity prices, addressing poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. The proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly in the past four decades, and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Economic growth has gone through boom and bust cycles, and recent episodes of moderate economic expansion have had limited impact on the poor. Great inequality across income brackets, regions, and sectors, as well as unmanaged population growth, are considered some of the key factors constraining poverty reduction efforts. This publication analyzes the causes of poverty and recommends ways to accelerate poverty reduction and achieve more inclusive growth. it also provides an overview of current government responses, strategies, and achievements in the fight against poverty and identifies and prioritizes future needs and interventions. The analysis is based on current literature and the latest available data, including the 2006 Family Income and Expenditure Survey. |
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| economic boom and bust: The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2011-02-07 How one of the greatest economic expansions in history sowed the seeds of its own collapse. With his best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz showed how a misplaced faith in free-market ideology led to many of the recent problems suffered by the developing nations. Here he turns the same light on the United States. The Roaring Nineties offers not only an insider's illuminating view of policymaking but also a compelling case that even the Clinton administration was too closely tied to the financial community—that along with enormous economic success in the nineties came the seeds of the destruction visited on the economy at the end of the decade. This groundbreaking work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist argues that much of what we understood about the 1990s' prosperity is wrong, that the theories that have been used to guide world leaders and anchor key business decisions were fundamentally outdated. Yes, jobs were created, technology prospered, inflation fell, and poverty was reduced. But at the same time the foundation was laid for the economic problems we face today. Trapped in a near-ideological commitment to free markets, policymakers permitted accounting standards to slip, carried deregulation further than they should have, and pandered to corporate greed. These chickens have now come home to roost. The paperback includes a new introduction that reviews the continued failure of the Bush administration's policies, which have taken a bad situation and made it worse. |
| economic boom and bust: Best for Britain? Simon Lee, 2007 On 28th June 2007, Gordon Brown finally succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister for Great Britain, having waited in the wings for over ten years. Does his premiership signal a shift to the left in British Politics? What will it mean for the UK's relationship with the US? Simon Lee systematically examines Brown's politics over the last ten years of Labour power, and provides an examination of Britain's most important political figure. |
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Boom and Bust: Oil 7.7(A) explain how the oil industry led to the industrialization of Texas 7.12(B)* explain the impact of economic concepts within the free enterprise system such as …
The Housing Boom and Bust: Model Meets Evidence
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From Boom to Bust: The Economic Crisis in Spain 2008–2013 …
4 FROM BOOM TO BUST: THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN SPAIN 2008–2013 123 Unemployment fell from 20% in the mid-1990s to 7.95% in the first half of 2007 (the lowest level since 1978), …
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Boom or Bust Developing countries’ rough ride on the commodity price rollercoaster Oli Brown Jason Gibson ... predicts that African economic growth—largely buoyed by high commodity …
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On Point: Do Past Cycles Predict the Future of Home Prices
policies to address the economic downturn and the housing market bust occurred far later during the GFC boom/bust cycle6. When the Housing and Economic Recovery Act was enacted in …
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The celerity of Ireland’s boom and bust fronted the business pages of the New York Times (Thomas, 2009), Ireland reappeared on the cover of the ... was new. But the linking of …
Flagler City and the Florida Land Boom and Bust of the 1920s
The economic prosperity of the 1920s prompted bold land development projects such as the proposed Flagler City (a $20,000,000 construction project of a new town ... Flagler City and …
BOOMS AND BUSTS - West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy
economic livelihood by being overly dependent on a vanishing source of employment and income. This report examines the boom and busts cycles of West Virginia’s energy economy, with …
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commodity boom. And in each boom, the common perception is that the world is quickly running out of key raw materials. The necessary consequence of this demand-induced scarcity is that …
Boom and Bust? A Political Economy Reading of India's …
Keywords: economic growth, boom and bust, India, deals, institutions JEL Codes: O11, O43, P16. 1INTRODUCTION For much of the 1990s and 2000s, India was seen as the 'new kid on the …
Boom and Bust? - JSTOR
2.1 Institutional Determinants:SPECIALARTICLE Based on more recent gdp data, we argue that India has Itisnotobvious thatthefactorsleading togrowthaccelera entereda period ofan …
Cheap Credit, Collateral and the Boom-Bust Cycle
Cheap Credit, Collateral and the Boom-Bust Cycle ... This paper proposes an analysis of the economic boom and bust, where the bust is an inevitable consequence of the boom and …
The USA c. 1920-55: Boom, Bust and Recovery Activities
The USA c. 1920-55: Boom, Bust and Recovery Activities In preparation for A-Level History you need to complete the following: 1. Read the Boom and Bust Summary which begins on page …
The Boom and Bust in Information Technology Investment
2. Basic Facts of the Boom and Bust Investment in IT has become an increasingly important component of the economy and played a disproportion-ately large role in the past economic …
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unemployment only during economic boom. The risk of becoming long-term unemployed is high for older people, people with a lower level of education and for ethnic minorities at both …
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Boom-bust cycles a b s t r a c t examine the dynamic relation between leveragefirm buildups and economic ac-real tivityusingU.S. establishment-,firm-,andregion-level data.We …
On Point: Do Past Cycles Predict the Future of Home Prices
policies to address the economic downturn and the housing market bust occurred far later during the GFC boom/bust cycle6. When the Housing and Economic Recovery Act was enacted in …
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of the boom–bust cycle. If the boom–bust cycle had been avoided, our recent political history might have looked rather different. Thus the issues raised in Hobart Paper 152 are of profound …
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before and during the recent economic crisis. Construction shares increased, some to very high levels, during the boom period. For example, during 2000-08 the real estate boom in Ireland, …
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monetary policy in boom-bust cycles: the episodes were often accompanied by heightened criticism of central banks for fueling the booms by keeping monetary policy too easy for too …
Debt, boom, bust: a theory of Minsky-Veblen cycles - JSTOR
Feb 20, 2004 · Debt, boom, bust: a theory of Minsky-Veblen cycles Abstract: This article reflects on the economic development leading to the recent crisis and interprets this development as a …
9 Economic Activity during Boom, Bust, and War - Springer
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The Social, Economic, and Environmental Impacts of Rapid Energy Development on Local Communities: ... population associated with it in the United States are often shrugged off as a …
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Greece experienced a boom until 2007, followed by a collapse of unprecedented magnitude and persistence. We assess the sources of the boom and the bust, using a rich estimated dynamic …
Commodity Booms and Busts - UC Davis
sizeable portion of economic activity in these countries, and households there spend a large share of disposable income on food commodities. In addition, booms and busts can have ... real …
Penn State University Park, PA Pennsylvania: Bust to Boom?
Center for Economic and Community Development Penn State | University Park, PA | June 2019 Prepared by: Theodore R. Alter, Regional Economist ... years of “bust-to-boom” during 2008 …
Monetary Policy and Stock Market Boom-Bust Cycles
Monetary Policy and Stock Market Boom-Bust ... boom and makes the economic expansion much bigger than is socially optimal. In a situation like this, a central bank that ‘leans against the …
CHAPTER 18 Role in the U.S. Economy’s Boom-and-Bust
560 y The Role of Universal Banks in the Boom-and-Bust Cycle of 1921–33 This chapter offers a preliminary assessment of the role played by universal banks in the economic boom-and-bust …
IDENTIFYING “BOOM AND BUST” CYCLES
As in other economic variables, there is a “law” in the temporal evolution of the prices and it is composed by three components not directly observable: ... The business cycle is called the …
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Part 1: Boom to Bust (1930-1932) MISSION 5: “Up from the Dust” A NOTE TO THE EDUCATOR: ... economic and social system in which all of a society’s property is owned in common, rather …
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commodity boom and bust in the United States surrounding World War I (WWI). During the period we study, 1910-1930, both the General Fertility Rate and Crude Birth rate fell by approximately …
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“baby bust” resumed. Conventional wisdom links the baby boom with the end of the Great Depression and World War II. The popular view is that these traumatic events led to a drop in …
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With “2020 hindsight,” the 2000s housing cycle is not a boom-bust but a boom-bust- rebound. Using a spatial equilibrium regression in which house prices are determined by income, …
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Boom and Bust Banking David M. Beckworth,2012 Exploring the forceful renewal of the boom-and-bust cycle after several decades of economic stability, this book is a research-based …
The U.S. housing bubble and bust: impacts on employment
Jun 25, 2009 · ment” during the recent boom-and-bust cycle are pre-sented. Finally, growth scenarios based on nonbubble demand are considered in order to estimate how the housing …
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The economic boom was accompanied by unprecedented house price inflation which jumped from 8 % per annum between 1990 and 1993 to 22 % per annum between 1996 ... is not to …
Explaining the Boom-Bust Cycle in the U.S. Housing
Laibson and Mollerstrom (2010) argue that the U.S. consumption boom from 1996 to 2006 was driven mainly by bubbly movements in house prices, not lower real interest rates. In this paper, …
Technology Shocks and Predictable Minsky Cycles
with which to repay their debts. This means that the present value of the credit boom must be matched by a credit bust of equal present value (see Proposition 1). We describe these …
Corporate Debt, Boom-Bust Cycles, and Financial Crises
Corporate Debt, Boom-Bust Cycles, and Financial Crises* ... thinking about economic booms and busts. A wealth of evidence shows that household debt played a key role in the boom-bust …
The Stock Market Boom and Crash of 1929 Revisited
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Steps To Avoid the Historic Boom/Bust Cycle in Power Sector
from significant power surpluses to serious power shortages. This Boom/Bust cycle is not good for China’s economic or environment health. One simulation showed that steady annual additions …
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of rms, rms choose a riskier strategy which exacerbates both the boom and the bust by tightening the credit market. Our main observation is that the heterogeneity among boom-bust cycles …
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HS.UH.CE.3 Explain the political, social and economic causes and effects of economic boom and bust cycles between 1877-1945. HS.UH.I.CC.2 Engage in disciplinary thinking and construct …
