Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis for a Chatsworth real-estate boom...
...threat of a further expansion in excess reserves has been largely removed. And with the present total shaved to a figure within the reach of the standard tools of credit control-the rediscount rate and open market operations in government bonds-Chairman Eccles is now battened down for a boom blow...
...Runkle of Marshall Field's New York Office. In prices the merchant's interest is close to that of the customer, opposed to that of the manufacturer. The lower the price the easier it is to sell the goods. In viewing with alarm the commodity boom, Retailer Runkle opined: "It would be a serious thing for all of us if prices got out of bounds." Something the retail leaders wanted to keep in bounds quite as much as prices was internal opposition to the "little NRA" outlined by the Dry Goods Association directors at Atlantic City last autumn...
...tramp money, or hot money, he does not fear a sudden withdrawal of foreign funds from the present rising market nor the consequent financial danger to the United States, but he does remember with no little vividness the part played by this kind of money in fostering a "boom psychology," and in addition considers its connection with the war debts...
...Whatever the discord in definition, there is perfect harmony on one point: inflation means higher prices for all. Oddly enough, there was much more talk of inflation two or three years ago than there is today, when prices are mounting faster than at any time since the post-War "boom."' That "boom" in good measure was pure inflation brought on by War financing, and the subsequent collapse was highlighted by a terrific crash in commodity prices, just as the last depression was by plummeting security prices...