And so one of our challenges now, and I've been speaking about this for many months now, is how do we get what I call a post-bubble growth model, one that is sustainable.
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Coming out of a recession also necessitates different strategies than a growth bubble.
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Such levels would be nearly 200 basis points above the prior peak reached at the height of the credit-induced global growth bubble.
In the late 1990s the seemingly boundless corporate spending on servers and computers in the heady days of the dot-com bubble fueled the growth of the semiconductor industry.
And this includes, as we agreed with our G20 partners at Pittsburgh, to replacing the old cycle of bubble and bust with growth that is balanced and sustained.
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However, its margins and growth seem so bubble like, that the counter argument is these levels of business are unsustainable.
But it is impossible to know for sure whether a jump in share prices reflects an increase in productivity growth or a bubble.
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.
The new leaders, who take charge in March, will now have to find the right balance between trying to prevent the formation of a property bubble and keeping a healthy growth rate going.
"An over-reliance on the housing bubble and personal debt exaggerated income growth in the run-up to the recession, " said TUC general secretary Brendan Barber.
Many officials at the Fed had been fretting about the growth of a financial bubble in America, and the risk that it might have exploded into future inflation.
The long-running housing market boom could turn out to be a speculative bubble whose bursting damages economic confidence and growth.
Blitzstein expects, however, to see a slowing of growth rather than a burst bubble in part because the trend isn't dependent on one industry, but on an entire economy seeing the value in data.
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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New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, in testimony to the House of Representatives finance committee, laid the blame at the feet of federal regulators and ratings agencies, who failed to stop the growth of the subprime mortgage bubble before it got out of control.
As with the tech bubble, the rationale behind the bullishness is growth.
Following the stock market's bubble burst in 2000, value stocks outpaced growth stocks (the market-cap index holds both) over the subsequent five years.
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As you can see, while they enjoyed robust growth in the days before the bubble popped, both the Czech Republic and Hungary have been treading economic water for quite awhile.
If social media, and in this case, LinkedIn, manages to make true on its promises and delivers solid top and bottom-line growth, then talk of a bubble is no more than pure speculation.
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In America, where we also identified a potential house-price bubble, the 12-month rate of growth in home prices slowed to 5.6% in the year to the second quarter, the slowest rate of increase since 1999.
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Now that Asia's financial bubble has burst, the scope for renewed strong growth remains.
While this was misguided, tax revenues were booming (in part because of genuine growth and in part because of the bubble) and it seemed like bigger government was a free lunch.
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The central bank had pushed rates down to encourage economic growth after the bursting of the technology bubble in the stock market in 2000 and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
At the mere mention of the word bubble, he brandishes a recent magazine article charting job growth in the U.S. over the past five years.
Because the early days of a bubble create optimism, and optimism fuels hiring, spending and growth.
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More worrying is the absence of obvious sources of growth after the bursting of Spain's property bubble.
The consequent bursting of that bubble has been painful for the economy, with virtually no growth in the four years to 1995.
Just as it's easy to spot America's boom towns by looking at where immigrant growth has increased the most, the places where the bubble has burst are also instantly recognizable.
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