The vision of Fastow — a necktie wrapped around his head — and his raptors in his inner sanctum, just before Enron goes boom, brings to mind a war-warped, jungle-fevered character out of "Apocalypse Now" or "The Deer Hunter".
(Remember all those busted dot-com companies from the tech boom?) Three words: Mind the cash.
Being Courted in the Valley, But Not Willing to Sell In the post-dot-com boom era, the mind-set among many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs is to position a start-up company for a quick and lucrative sale rather than wait for the uncertain payout of an initial offering.
"In my mind, the boom was going to go," he said.
This is not the kind of war boom people have in mind.
Commodity prices were Exhibit A in claims that Bernanke was "debasing the dollar"; Paul Ryan called for monetary policy that would stabilize the price of a basket of commodities (and therefore require deflation in America whenever China experienced a boom, but hey, never mind).
CHONGQING, CHINA — Seated in the cobwebbed little office of Liu Wei, a professor of business administration at Chongqing University in central China, listening to him document the city's boom, I found my mind wandering as I gazed at his computer screen, open to a Google page.
David Smith (@dsmitheconomics) Never mind the housing boom, look at the new car boom.
But Britain — heavily dependent on banking, site of a wild real estate boom and saddled with mind-boggling levels of personal credit-card debt — has been hard hit by the financial crisis, for which voters blame Brown.
Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency on everyone's mind, is booming in value.
