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Big problems, be they market bubbles or flawed levees, go ignored until they blow up.
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There is a big difference between debt- and equity-fueled bubbles.
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There are unbroken ones, like bubbles or boils, small ones, ones as big as half a soccer ball.
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The Fed then popped the asset bubbles that it had created (there was a big one in commodities, too) by allowing gold prices to plunge by 22% between February 2008 and October 2008.
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As news ceases to be gathered round the event of a big-guns bulletin, or a wad of Sunday newsprint, it bubbles along and becomes easier, not harder, to disregard.
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The fact that hardly any banks have gone bust in recent years (just two went under last year, neither big), even after the popping of one of the biggest stockmarket bubbles in history, is not just a matter of skill.
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That has given a big boost to domestic spending but raised concerns that the flood of liquidity will push up inflation, fuel bubbles in shares and housing, and store up bad loans.
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