The boom in gift cards is a kind of socially tolerable version of this: the cards are somehow more personal than cash, and they're also not going to be wasted on an unwanted gift.
The same can't be said, though, of the boom of the past decade.
The report represents the most significant political pressure yet to bring mindfulness into the mainstream and comes amid a boom in public interest in the practice, rooted in a 2,400-year-old 2,400-year-old 2,400-year-old
Having benefited from a five-year plan struck at the height of an economic boom in 2007, Network Rail faces a much tougher round of negotiations this time.
Jeremy Clarkson's Top Gear toppled Doctor Who from the top of the BBC's iPlayer Christmas charts as on-demand viewing continued to boom, up 25% year on year.
Sierra Leone was devastated by an 11-year civil war that ended in 2002, but by 2013 a commodities-led boom driven by deposits of iron ore, gold, diamonds and rutile had pushed growth to 20%.
We're in the most extraordinarily gigantic building boom that we've seen Rachel Schuett, town planner in San Francisco That picture is an apt symbol for the city's widening inequality.
Encrusted with mosaics and inlaid with gold, it is the most visible (and audible) sign of the frenzied building boom that has taken hold of Saudi Arabia's holy city over the last 10 years.
When he spells it out, what he is talking about is a small and gradual real-term fall in prices to make property more affordable over time, the end of boom and bust in the property market.
The summer months are the boom time for letting: "All the one-bed stock is being diminished.
Thoughts of reform should focus on the young When George Osborne told the 400,000 people who retire every year with an annuity that they could now do whatever they liked with the money, it immediately sparked concerns about a renewed buy-to-let boom.
