With all bubbles come the inflation, the euphoria, and finally the pop, so there is bound to be some pain around the corner.
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More people in their loyalty card scheme, more information on their shopping habits (but not their browsing habits, we assume), and if the draw of being able to browse Facebook for free during the festive season brings in a few customers, then that all bubbles through to the bottom line.
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The problem with America's economy is that the last bubble, the "home-mortgage, derivative, credit default swap bubble" popped, as all economic bubbles eventually do.
All countries have bubbles, but the effects of Japan's bore most heavily on banks because they are the main intermediary between savers and borrowers, as Kazuhito Ikeo at Keio University points out.
Back in the real world, since all trades balance, bubbles quite simply don't exist.
So, naturally the situation triggered all kinds of thought bubbles in my head.
It encourages speculation and leads to bubbles of all variation, which none of us can see with any certainty.
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It is quite understandable given the housing and stock bubbles we all experienced over the past decade with plenty of lingering aftershocks.
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One thing is certain, however: all this talk of bubbles suggests that many commentators are getting a bit too far ahead of the curve.
Those interventionist policies fueled massive capital malinvestment including housing and credit bubbles, all of which culminated in the greatest economic bust in 80 years.
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The issue bubbles up all over Colorado.
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After all, if those new bubbles were permitted to inflate to levels sufficient to once again threaten our financial system, Chairman Bernanke would someday be forced to look back on QE2 as the bonehead move of his once-illustrious career.
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What they miss is that if "bubbles" were so easy to identify, there would never be bubbles to burst at all.
Now Wall Street is re-inflating the commodities bubbles as gold pushes to a new all time high almost daily, and as crude oil breaks out to the upside.
My summary insight from studying hundreds of years of all types of manias and panics is simply that bubbles always burst, and then they go back to where they started or a bit lower.
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At one point, Tom Cruise, playing an irresponsible dad with two children he must learn to protect, hurtles along the street right toward the camera, which is rapidly receding before him, and buildings and people on all sides disintegrate as the street itself puckers and bubbles like a fondue at the boil.
Thought bubbles and MSUs permeate the business world at all levels of leadership.
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Fairy liquid bubbles of intelligence and they are popping around me all the time - grabbing one and trying to remember it before it floats away, popping.
So we opted for a sombre burial in the Greenhouse, under the shade of the tallest of the mangroves, though in truth it meant a slightly watery grave after all, stuff seeping up through the muck to swallow the foot, bubbles of mud detaching and floating among us during our tiny, foot-size ritual observances.
Sound barriers, pesticides, fishing, pheromones, barriers of bubbles and complete hydrologic separation of the Mississippi and Great Lakes watersheds are all being considered.
Stocks are firing on all cylinders as ultra-low rates fuel risk-taking, which could get dangerous if asset bubbles go out of control, Bernanke said a few days ago.
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This helps to explain investment booms and bubbles of course: there usually is a real opportunity at least at the beginning of them after all.
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