The crisis in the credit markets has raised all sorts of questions about who was minding the store while the mortgage bubble grew out of control.

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There is no credit bubble spinning out of control.

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New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, in testimony to the House of Representatives finance committee, laid the blame at the feet of federal regulators and ratings agencies, who failed to stop the growth of the subprime mortgage bubble before it got out of control.

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The friction caused by the gas bubble pushing up the pipe and displacing the drilling mud used to control the pressure could have created a static charge that ignited the gas into a fireball.

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But when feelings bubble up and over, especially romantic feelings, then, well, illusions of rational control over emotions must be protected.

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That deal has come to symbolise the excesses of the banking bubble: two of the three consortium members, RBS and Fortis, have since been taken into majority state control.

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Considering October of 1987, bubble theorists would likely explain the Oct. 19 crash as a function of a market that similarly spiraled out of control--its impressive rise throughout the '80s a precursor to its ugly, 24.5% collapse.

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