The financial and construction boom of the 1980s helped make the city a very expensive place.

How many financial booms, after all, are based on nothing more substantial than belief in an imagined future?

Keep in mind, moreover, that 1989, the last year for which Congressional Budget Office numbers are available, represented the peak of the 1980's financial boom.

Soon, after all these years, being the butt of the big-city humor he finds offensive may actually bring about a financial boom.

Over time, this activity was seen to gain momentum and result in financial booms and busts.

Within Australian borders artists are enjoying a financial boom and higher visibility than ever before.

His administration witnessed the financial boom that led up to 1929 and the crash that followed.

He did not try to defend all the policies that had produced economic growth and financial boom in the 1980's.

The dark underbelly of the previous decade's financial boom has been fully exposed in Europe as well.

He has also accused the governor of not spending enough state money to help start new industries during the financial boom of the 1990's.