But the booms were mild compared with the one that came in the middle of the last decade.
Hillary Clinton has offered mild criticism of the fracking boom that has spread across the US under Barack Obama's presidency, drawing another small distinction with his administration.
Because the boom was much milder, no bust should follow.This is, of course, self-serving stuff, intended to show that New Labour folk, unlike the Tories, are careful stewards of the economy and in particular, what a good idea it was to give the Bank of England control over interest rates.
So long as the boom lasts, America's mild economic anxieties will pale next to Japan's.
The big surprise of last year was the long-tailed tit, which, after a long run of very mild winters and a consequent population boom, entered the garden birdwatch top 10 for the first time.
His ten-year oversight of the state's long boom, interrupted by only a mild recession, has led to calls for him to join the contest for the Republican nomination.
If over the past few years the Fed had simply stuck to its usual policy, carefully watching out for inflationary pressures, the housing boom would have been much milder.
But economists say that the lingering uncertainties within the nation's 140-million-strong work force help to explain why wage pressures, while on the upswing, remain more modest than they were in the milder and shorter economic booms of the recent past.
One major downside: This V-shaped recovery could signal "a return to a boom-bust pattern rather than a mild recession followed by a soft recovery, as occurred in 2001, suggests Acuthan.
