Two weeks ago, FORBES GLOBAL asked whether the stock market was signaling an asset bubble pop, as it did in 1987, or something far worse -- an Armageddon like 1929.
The dot-com bubble pop knocked down sales 20% at Wang Steak in early 2000, but that only prompted Day to look to lower-end markets and an avenue for rapid expansion.
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Gary Shilling, who in 2006 predicted the housing bubble would pop and carry the entire economy into recession.
It is always easier to identify assets that are bubbling than to predict when the bubble will pop.
However, as those who bet against dotcom stocks in 1999 discovered, it can be a lonely business waiting for a bubble to pop.
They worry China's real-estate bubble could pop, threatening growth in that country, and that the U.S. and Europe are far from resolving their own debt problems.
Of course, some readers might wonder if all four signs must come to fruition in order for the education bubble to pop, and the answer is no.
A. has stood out so prominently, especially against the current backdrop of bubble-gum pop and gangsta rap.
An education bubble will either pop or the education sector will change.
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We spotted an inflatable bathroom bubble that can pop up on any rooftop for a serene sunset soak, while Aether clothing dropped a three-story store made from stacked shipping containers in San Francisco.
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In other words, even putting aside the possibility that the Net sector on Wall Street is a bubble waiting to pop (a matter about which there is considerable debate), you have to agree that the new-issue market has more than its share of investing hazards.
Eventually, rates heated up enough to pop a bubble that, in hindsight, looks ridiculously inflated.
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The recent jumps on price give all of the impression of being a bubble that could soon pop.
The point being that generally, a catalyst is needed to pop a bubble.
In the first case, Alan Greenspan was worried about a stock market bubble and tried to pop it with higher interest rates.
Allow to pop your bubble, you are the first, and most likely not the last, but God, the person is not someone you want as your enemy.
Nick Carter of UxC Consulting explained that hedge funds and investors, buying into physical uranium, managed to inflate and pop a bubble which decimated investor confidence for years.
All it took was the threat of new offshore and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling to pop the speculative bubble.
In order to pop a property bubble and damp inflation, the government has tightened credit, driving property prices down by something like 20%-30%.
As for what will pop the 2008 commodity bubble, one can only guess.
The number cruncher ostensibly warned top execs that the firm was a value bubble unto itself, ready to pop at any moment.
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