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There are two checks on current commodity values that make sustained speculative bubbles much less likely.
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The central bank is also worried that speculative bubbles might already be starting to form in some asset markets.
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They were explaining to me why our open economy seems to always be prone to speculative bubbles and crashing.
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He has a canny record of detecting speculative bubbles earlier than others do.
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Speculative bubbles have almost always been caused by excessive lending on farmland and real estate, which inflates prices until the inevitable adjustment that leads to bank failures.
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Legalized Internet gambling would just exacerbate these problems and permit dubious groups to tout the U.S. imprimatur, empowering them to create speculative bubbles that could endanger financial systems.
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Stocks, bonds, futures, and even houses can experience speculative bubbles.
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This money can then inflate speculative bubbles, especially in property.
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During speculative bubbles, there is a point at which sophisticated players lose the incentive to correct a trend away from fundamentals and instead benefit from going along with it.
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Lee Seong-tae, the governor of the Bank of Korea, believes that the central bank, like others elsewhere, will have to be increasingly alert to the risk of speculative bubbles.
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Speculative real estate bubbles sometimes happen.
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But it can create booms and bubbles in speculative assets.
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