Housing markets in Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Australia have also been displaying bubble-like symptoms in recent years.
Nothing like the parabolic, bubble-like moves seen in the first quarter of 2011.
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DangDang, another Chinese stock that had its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange today, also saw its shares rise a bubble-like 87% today.
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Shanghai and Beijing, but this must be understood in the broader context that many other regions of the country are not experiencing analogous bubble-like conditions.
But it is one of the most notable cases of overheating, with creeping inflation, a quickly appreciating currency, and a bubble-like behavior in its labor markets.
Popular with baby boomers, this type of authentic, real life experience is a backlash against the bubble-like environment of all-inclusive resorts, theme parks, gaudy tourist attractions and cruises, according to the University of Illinois.
Despite easy access to information, people find it comfortable to live in a bubble filled with like-minded views.
In this dot-com-like bubble, the smaller companies will prove to be especially poor investments, at least over the long term.
Benches, stools and high tables give it the relaxed feel of a bar, and playful extras like bubble-shaped lights and witty cartoon dog artwork keep it casual and fun.
As an entrepreneur in the Internet sector I still remember the dot-com bubble like it was yesterday, when share prices fell over their own cliff and many businesses, big and small, fell apart.
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Many are discussing how regulation can help avoid another bubble of speculation and stud-like risk assumption in the future, but the best protection may be right in front of us: gender-balanced teams at the top.
The market for new issues heated up in the first few months, with bubble-era leveraged buyout targets like HCA and Kinder Morgan going public alongside the new crop of technology companies including cloud names and the social media vanguard with the likes of LinkedIn.
Wages and prices have to adjust to something like their pre-bubble trends, Mr. Connolly says, to make these economies competitive again.
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Spain has what looks like a house-price bubble, and so does Britain and, arguably, Ireland.
The attendant will work up an almighty lather with an enormous sponge and squeeze it all over you - it is a bit like taking a bubble bath without the bath.
Brain imaging studies show that investors as a whole get more and more used to big returns, and thus take bigger and bigger risks in a bull market--and then the bubble pops and stockholders start selling like mad.
Go back and read the back issues of almost any of the various tech publications from Internet Bubble 1.0--the late, great mags like Business 2.0, the Red Herring, Upside and The Industry Standard--and you will find an endless array of simply loopy ideas about what the world was then creating.
In some ways Google feels like the giddy dot-coms of the stock-market bubble, circa 1999.
Trying Husky Chat for the first time felt like jumping a Skip-It or unrolling a pack of Bubble Tape.
Today a number of experts have recognized that we are living in the midst of a century-plus-long period of irrational exuberance I like to call it the Carbon Bubble.
In Singapore, a very successful start-up called Bubble Motion that provides Twitter for voice, is growing rapidly in countries like India and the Philippines.
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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.
Macro funds are more demanding because they follow, or one might argue, create opportunity, like the U.S.-based funds that bet against the housing bubble.
In the meantime, a reflating of the Chinese bubble will be good news for American companies like Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) and Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) that are major exporters to China.
The pressure on companies to cut costs is nothing like it was when Japan was trying to dig itself out of its post-bubble mess.
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During the last dot-com bubble, you kind of knew in your gut it was a bubble when Hollywood types like Barbra Streisand starting investing.
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Broker-dealers like the former Bear Stearns played an increasingly important role in lending during the bubble years, in the growth of the commercial paper market, structured investment products and derivatives trading.
In other words, the new definition may provide the legal framework needed for private lenders to more confidently service mortgages in a post-housing bubble industry that has largely been dominated by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and government agencies like the Federal Housing Administration.
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In order to pop a property bubble and damp inflation, the government has tightened credit, driving property prices down by something like 20%-30%.
Most people attribute the tech-stock boom to the madness of crowds, like the tulipomania of the 1600s and the South Sea Bubble of the early 1700s.
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