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And all of those booms, in their own various ways, have now kicked the bucket, and we're back in this situation where the smartest designers and architects in the world are only really able to work for one percent of the population.
For this reason, scientists around the world have been looking at sonic booms, trying to predict their path in the atmosphere, where they will land, and how loud they will be.
To better understand how scientists study sonic booms, let's start with some basics of sound.
Well, the sonic boom occurs when there is a sudden change in pressure, and the N-wave involves two booms: one for the initial pressure rise at the aircraft's nose, and another for when the tail passes, and the pressure suddenly returns to normal.
In practice, computer models using these principles can often predict the location and intensity of sonic booms for given atmospheric conditions and flight trajectories, and there is ongoing research to mitigate their effects.
So, are sonic booms a recent creation?
While we try to find ways to silence them, a few other animals have been using sonic booms to their advantage.
The economy will continue to go through phases of booms and busts.
The opportunity we're going to look to is a genuine basis for optimism about the bottom billion, and that is the commodity booms.
The commodity booms are pumping unprecedented amounts of money into many, though not all, of the countries of the bottom billion.
So, the flow of resources from the commodity booms to the bottom billion are without precedent.
You go up in the short run, but then most societies historically have ended up worse than if they'd had no booms at all.
And again, I've looked at that, and it turns out that the critical issue is the level of governance, the initial level of economic governance, when the resource booms accrue.
Now, there's one big change since the commodity booms of the 1970s, and that is the spread of democracy.
Democracies make even more of a mess of these resource booms than autocracies.
It turns out that electoral competition is the thing that's doing the damage with democracy, whereas strong checks and balances make resource booms good.
Human confidence in the market has the power to trigger everything from economic booms to financial crises.
Mainly what they're doing is booms and dispersants.
The booms are absolutely not made for open water.
The dispersants make the oil go right under the booms.
The booms are only about 13 inches in diameter.
There are hundreds of shrimp boats employed to drag booms instead of nets.
Two brothers, real-life ones (one of them being Marc Recha himself), re-enact a fictional version of a real-life journey they had made through the spectacular Catalan countryside, and history is evoked (pans of bullet-holed walls, artillery booms on the soundtrack) but not shown.
The Marine is fun if your in the mood for guns and big booms, but the acting was appalling, and the script was absolute crap.
I have seen many ebbs and flows, booms and busts, and though I fully recognize that international capital markets have become more institutional in character and demonstrate greater resistance, I cannot believe that the present boom will not be followed by a bust until history proves me wrong.
In most deficit countries, strong credit expansion over the last decade fueled unsustainable pre-crisis booms.
As a result, while central bankers before the 2008 financial crisis viewed themselves as heroes in a battle against inflation, they increasingly found themselves offsetting structural deflationary pressures by setting interest rates low enough to stimulate credit booms.
It is quite right to argue that governments should aim only to balance their budgets over the business cycle, running surpluses during booms and deficits when economic activity is weak.
The bad news is that credit booms rarely end well, as the economists Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor have reminded us.
While no two financial crises are identical, all tend to share some telltale symptoms: a significant slowdown in economic growth and exports, the unwinding of asset-price booms, growing current-account and fiscal deficits, rising leverage, and a reduction or outright reversal in capital inflows.
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