Middle-class incomes, by and large, haven't been keeping up with the swelling price of tuition in the past decade.
Because of a financial restructuring and swelling oil prices, Nigeria has almost no foreign debt, almost $50 billion in foreign reserves and a growing trade surplus.
In the past year it has stumbled as a result of swelling overhead, pricing problems and a big customer default.
Dissent in Russia was relatively low as the economy boomed, built on a swelling oil-price.
Then there are university fees, the pensions crisis, unemployment swelling again, the frightening prices of gas and oil; Coombs characterises these contemporary financial pressures as "a vague rumbling in the background" of the lives of otherwise confident modern consumers.
Together, however, the country's ten biggest airlines have managed, despite swelling demand and rising prices, to lose money in the most recent financial quarter, a state they have flirted with on and off for most of their existence.
Despite the dangers, high gasoline prices are swelling the ranks of local pedal-pushers.
Speaking of risk factors for the market, Ortz argues that Wall Street is presently blind sided by the widespread and swelling view that stock prices -- despite a more than 50% run from their March lows -- still have nowhere to go but up.
C3 Business Digest C1 EDITORIAL A14-15 EditoriAfricafrica's swelling refugee crisis; oil price mysteries; taking action on hate crimes; the Russians are coming.
The country is moving into 3-D films and budgets are swelling; with the lavish price tag on "Heroes of Nanking," the movie almost certainly needs to make a splash overseas to turn a profit.
