Games, such as Bubble Ball, are a great way for the youth to stimulate their brains and express innovative ideas on changing the world.
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The college bubble is not as big now as the housing bubble was five years ago, but it is much like that one in featuring a large population of buyers who are goaded by federal subsidies and tax benefits into a borrowing binge and then wake up with a hangover.
Yet, this is the very reason why I would characterize US Treasuries as in bubble.
Yet, these very same shaky loans were destined to default as soon as the bubble began to deflate.
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People with SCID -- also known as "bubble boy disease" -- cannot cope with infections and usually die in childhood.
The Fed and other bank regulators stood by as the bubble ballooned.
The study also discovered that this effect is found in the events they choose to report on, which narrow as the bubble grows.
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Debt investors are usually sober types, but as the bubble grew, it was increasingly their urges, and not the creditworthiness of homeowners, that determined loan-underwriting standards.
Regulators in the United States had total power over subprime lending but as the bubble built, they used that power not to raise down-payments or credit standards, but to lower them.
That sounds suspiciously like the Fed's position before and after the stockmarket bust: sit back as the bubble grows, but react aggressively in the aftermath and never mind criticism that the low interest rates of a few years ago helped to stoke the housing bubble.
Why there was so much money to be made, why the game went on as long as it did, and the bubble got as big as it did, is the subject of another post.
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Ideally, they should just stand back and do nothing, should simply let it happen, without doing anything to stop it, just as they should always let any bubble burst as soon as possible, knowing that delaying the inevitable suffering will only make it worse.
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When the South Sea Company exploded its bubble in much the same way as the recent subprime bubble, the London property rental market was overvalued by 40%.
Residential real-estate is in the spotlight in China as the government attempts to revive growth without causing a property bubble, as I report in the current issue of Forbes Asia ( read here).
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It referred to this period as a reverse bubble, where only the bad in everything is noticed.
But remember what happened afterward: The market plunged 45% as the tech bubble burst.
It slowly crawled back up, as the housing bubble pumped new energy into the economy.
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And yet, as eaters of bubble-and-squeak sometimes find, another plateful is often just too tempting.
Still, however painful, this is not the same sort of bubble as the first internet boom-and-bust.
Social media seems to have caused a similar frenzy as the technology bubble did in the early 2000s.
We can recognize the thought bubble as an unspoken assumption and seek new data to test it for validity.
Clients had grown skittish as the tech bubble popped and energy prices soared.
As the housing bubble continued to inflate, he subdivided, developed and in some cases sold, pieces of the historic estate.
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Wealth had peaked in the exuberance of 2007, as the housing bubble was popping and the economy began its nose dive.
Mr Mishkin, a former Fed governor, draws a contrast between credit-boom bubbles and irrational exuberance in stockmarkets, such as the dotcom bubble.
As in any bubble worth its foam, investors are not frightened but actually excited by all the talk about crazy Chinese IPO fever.
As that debt bubble imploded, the government bailed out the financial sector, thus driving up AAA issuance and fueling a sovereign debt bubble.
Hence, home prices did not bubble as much as stocks and then they only fell 26% in the worst depression in U.S. history.
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