The booms and busts have caused great redistributions of wealth.

I better go drain her off before she busts a gusset!

Similar stock market booms and busts have occurred in many other countries.

One of the busts is in Chicago s International Museum of Surgical Science.

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While they lasted, the booms that preceded these busts caused these economies to overheat.

Why are there economic booms and busts, those long swings between expansion and slowdown?

I'll guard the door and see nobody busts in till you get it locked.

Since capitalism's beginnings, the market economy has been subject to fluctuations, to booms and busts.

As we look at this shelf with six or eight busts along it. This face stands out,

His portrait busts reveal a creative individuality that was seen as particularly fascinating in the late 19th century.

The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

Volatile capital flows induce volatility in the recipient economy, making booms and busts more pronounced than they would otherwise be.

My second point is that there are several obvious economic channels through which booms that turn into busts affect growth.

Finally, tightened financial market regulation could perhaps slow some of the hot money flows that exaggerate the booms and busts.

Growth driven by high commodity prices is also susceptible to busts, for similar reasons. Commodity prices tend to move in cycles.

In the course of another adventure, Solo kills the space pirate Crimson Jack and busts up his operation, which Jabba bankrolled.

Toys Toy Biz, Diamond Select Toys, Bowen Designs, and Eaglemoss have released mini busts, action figures, and statues of the character.

Some women, especially those with smaller busts, prefer to go braless and can get away with it more easily than larger busted women.

Notable MLB draft busts include Steve Chilcott (1966), Brien Taylor (1991), and Matt Bush (2004), three 1st overall draft picks who never reached the majors.

So, since the passage of the National Banking Act of 1863, the Money Chnagers had been able to coordinate a series of booms and busts.

Above the columns are large busts of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Ludwig van Beethoven on the main façade and Richard Wagner on the side.

The global economy has been driven in recent years by remarkable speculative asset booms and busts, which bring into the equation questions of confidence and trust, as well as fairness.

Or South Africa, where economic progress has constantly been too slow, whether in boom years for gold and other resources or busts, to make any real dent in poverty levels.

Understandably, long suffering, ordinary citizens of Tajikistan have been disgusted by the busts, that reveal once more how far removed their interests are from those of highly placed government officials.

At Walhalla's inauguration on October 18, 1842, there were 96 busts, plus 64 plaques for persons or events of which no portrait was available on which to model a sculpture.

The US will be hardest hit, but other countries with recent housing and consumption booms (and now busts) particularly the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and Spain will be hit as well.

As he argued, unregulated capitalism can lead to regular bouts of over capacity, under consumption, and the recurrence of destructive financial crises, fueled by credit bubbles and asset price booms and busts.

Half of the album was recorded by Tony Visconti in London with the other half recorded by the brothers in their own purpose built studio in LA, surrounded by busts of Elvis.

But this approach suffers from a fatal fallacy if booms are fueled by underestimation of risks, and regulation is made more sensitive to the estimation of risks, booms will be bigger and busts deeper.

The authorities in Beijing, especially the CBRC and the People s Bank of China (the real central bank), have a good record of managing incipient booms and busts, and I would not bet against their success this time.

He expected all this, saw it in their faces, in the careless indifference with which they talked among themselves, looked at the lay figures and busts and unconcernedly walked about while waiting for him to uncover his picture.

Oil above 140 a barrel was the last straw coming on top of the housing busts and financial shocks for the global economy, as it represented a massive supply shock for the US, Europe, Japan, China and other net importers of oil.

In the last cycle of real estate busts, real (inflation corrected) home prices fell 46 in London in 1988 95, 41 in Los Angeles in 1989 1997, 43 in Paris in 1991 98, 67 in Moscow in 1993 97, and 38 in Shanghai in 1995 1999.

The authorities in Beijing, especially the CBRC and the People s Bank of China (the real central bank), have a good record of managing incipient booms and busts, and I would not bet against their success this time. They have considerable flexibility, owing to a range of policy tools, including variable capital and reserve requirements and direct controls on mortgage lending terms.

Karl Marx oversold socialism, but he was right in claiming that globalization, unfettered financial capitalism, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self destruct. As he argued, unregulated capitalism can lead to regular bouts of over capacity, under consumption, and the recurrence of destructive financial crises, fueled by credit bubbles and asset price booms and busts.