Buy and Hold died with the Tech Stock Bubble bursting in March 2000.
Every 5 years or so there is a bubble bursting or amazing deals available because of a change in the economy.
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The market had gotten over the tech bubble bursting and was being fueled by an overexpansion of another sort, in the housing market.
Thats what a housing bubble bursting in the US looked like and that is not what one is going to look like in China.
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Everyone has been so concerned about a property real estate bubble bursting over the last year but the steps to deal with it have worked.
The latest round of bubble bursting measures comes after home prices began to show renewed strength despite stricter bank lending to developers and second-home buyers, in particular.
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Tech research outfit Gartner expects to see PC shipments record their first year-over-year decline since the recession in the aftermath of the tech bubble bursting 12 years ago.
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That may not be the worst thing, given the excesses that led the the bubble bursting five and a half years ago, but Alpert thinks one of the knock-on effects is housing demand from institutional investors masking the fact that shadow inventory is still a significant overhang on the market.
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His current policy is to inflate another stock market bubble to cure the recession that resulted from the bursting of the housing bubble, which was itself inflated to counter the effects of the bursting tech stock bubble.
That beats the previous record, set in 2000, just as the New Economy bubble was bursting.
As economies finally pick up some steam in 2003 and 2004, inflation fears will renew and the bubble-bursting will begin.
The long-running housing market boom could turn out to be a speculative bubble whose bursting damages economic confidence and growth.
People's net worth is now higher than it was in pre-bubble-bursting 2000.
The bubble began bursting in August, when a federal court upheld the Patent Office's revocation of one of BlackLight's patents and the suspension of four others.
Since all money comes into existence as the result of a loan, new money has to be created at a fast enough pace to keep the debt bubble from bursting.
First, there was former chairman Alan Greenspan blaming the bubble-bursting on "the investment community, " and vainly trying to deflect the legitimate and well-deserved carping against his free market Ayn Rand ideology.
To stimulate after the bursting of the housing bubble (which itself resulted from the low interest rates used to juice the economy following the bursting of the dot-com bubble), the Fed lowered interest rates to practically zero.
There are three reasons why a house-price bubble might cause more harm on bursting than a stockmarket bubble.
Washington's been going in for an orgy of regulation in the wake of the high-tech bubble's bursting and the corporate scandals of the early part of this decade.
Consumer inflation in China is running in the 5% range and the central bank is keen to bring it down closer to 4% without bursting the bubble in real estate.
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If agencies like the SEC, the Comptroller of the Currency, the FTC and the Fed could not keep this massive bubble from building then bursting, will the new regulations do it?
Their preliminary findings reproduce the dynamics of the bubble building up and then bursting.
Some trace the bursting of the bubble to December 1999, and the peak for shares in telecoms firms.
There is also the financial debris left by the bursting of a bubble.
The Fed may be offsetting the bursting of one bubble by inflating another.
As far as he is concerned, the only real issue is how painful the inevitable bursting of the bubble will be.
The consequent bursting of that bubble has been painful for the economy, with virtually no growth in the four years to 1995.
Bill Dudley, an economist at Goldman Sachs, argues that a big increase in America's budget deficit was inevitable after the bursting of its bubble.
Energy down 9% with the overall CRB commodity index losing almost 5% is at the very least the temporary bursting of a bubble.
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