During booms, capital accumulates very fast, but the amount of surplus generated becomes harder and harder to absorb.
England have lost their last nine matches in all formats at the Waca, with their last victory in Australia's mineral-boom capital as long ago as 1987.
Even before this year's infrastructure boom capital spending was too great, causing many economists to worry about excess capacity and the risk that bank loans could sour.China deserves credit for the speed with which it responded to the global downturn.
(Except for Bill Clinton's 2000 budget, which hit 20.6% due to tech-boom capital-gains receipts; George Bush's 2003-4 budget, which dropped into the 16% range due to the tax cuts; and Mr Obama's 2009 budget, which dropped to 14.8% due to the Great Recession).
MOSCOW — All of the fashionable, edgily intellectual and artistic roads here these days lead to an island opposite the Kremlin — a sort of post-Modern encapsulation of a post-oil boom capital trying to prove there is more to life than a Maybach.
An emerging market booms, capital swarms in, real estate speculation thrives, leverage spikes, foreign banks arrive and then disaster strikes.
Mammoth Biosciences raised $120,000 from NFX Guild in 2017 and since then has pieced together capital from a variety of sources, including Mayfield, NFX, 8VC, AME Cloud, Wireframe, Kairos and Boom Capital, though the company declined to disclose the amount it has raised.
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It is dark, covered from floor to ceiling in creepy stuff, plays home to a host of girls who dance on the bar, blasts black metal well into the wee morning hours, serves absinthe the right way and is located in the heart of the gentrified baby-boom capital of Park Slope.
As emerging markets have boomed and capital has become more mobile, a growing number of governments around the world have begun to cultivate a desire to create their own financial centres.
