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boom and bust

alt. (context economics finance business English) A pattern of high prices in a given market or in the entire economy followed by ruinously low prices, falling production, and bankruptcy by producers. n. (context economics finance business English) A pattern of high prices in a given market or in the entire economy followed by ruinously low prices, falling production, and bankruptcy by producers.

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Giant computers controlled most economic fluctuations, keeping supply and demand in balance between one Region and another so that the ancient business cycles of boom and bust were flattened into gentle curves.

The subject of that first nine weeks was Two Hundred Years of Boom and Bust.

Paradise and hell, boom and bust, together forever in Los Angeles.

By simply giving people the amount of money necessary to spring over the gap between available production and power to consume, you could end the boom and bust business cycle permanently, and free people to pursue their own interests.

The Motie cycle of boom and bust was so dependable that plants and animals had evolved specifically for ruined cities!

Capitalism assumed that an economy cycles in a boom and bust cycle.