In a bid to dampen a push on inflation from too much boom-time spending, the Reserve Bank has raised interest rates five times since the last election in 2004.
Large log, hold the chicken steady, thank it very much, and boom, down goes the axe.
But the stellar supporting cast doesn't overshadow what remains very much a Boom Bip album, half of which is instrumental.
That book was a private commission from a super-rich Dutch industrialist who loved books nearly as much as Boom does, but she is equally obsessive when creating mass-produced books that the rest of us can afford.
The latest, and much bigger, boom was unleashed in the last 15 years as oil prices soared, along with China's demand for crude, and as technology to extract oil from the sands improved.
Much of "Boom Town" was filmed on Cardiff Bay, with one scene in particular in front of the Millennium Centre, in February 2005.
The latest incident will probably not much dent booming demand for air travel in the region, as rising incomes encourage more people to ditch ferries for a seat in the skies.
And in the case of individuals, there is the added bonus that using cash more and credit less would have made it apparent sooner just how much the "booming '90s" had left the middle class behind.
The bottom line is that government should not act like a business – spending too much during booms and too little during busts – but counter-cyclically, spending and investing in key strategic areas.
A We did not sell much during the boom years.
