Consider the NASDAQ Composite Index of 2, 605 stocks, after its rally, rests at only 60 percent of its bubble high in 2006.
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Unemployment, now 3.9%, may head back towards the post-bubble high of 5.5%.
Coincidentally, our NASDAQ Index from its bubble high in 2000 dropped 80 percent before recovery, now standing down 50 percent from its peak.
The bursting of the property bubble and high unemployment levels compounded the situation, forcing many economic migrants from South America and Eastern Europe to leave the country.
Distressed debt investors will have to adapt to a surging equity market and a bubble in high-yield loan markets, finding themselves pushed down the capital structure in search for yield.
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Krugman and much of the left are content to lean on QE2 to deliver the next bubble without high inflation, an outcome they have been able to secure repeatedly in the paper dollar reserve currency system.
In 2000 when the tech bubble was flying high, retirement plan investing was simple.
The wind from the sea alone sends up the smells of rotting high priced bubble properties.
Maybe living in Silicon Valley we may be in our own little high-tech bubble.
You probably were not even aware there is a bubble in stocks that have high dividend yields.
Remember eToys back in the High-tech Bubble years, when everyone rushed to get into on-line retail business?
But they have thrown a cloud over Wall Street generally--along with the economic slowdown and the bursting of the high-tech bubble.
Investment banker Frank Quattrone was widely vilified for supposedly contributing to the high-tech bubble by bringing flimsy firms to the public market.
He quickly grasped the promise of the Internet and never lost faith in its possibilities in the aftermath of the high-tech bubble.
He quickly grasped the promise of the Internet and never lost faith in its possibilities, even in the aftermath of the high-tech bubble.
But longer term it's setting up a train wreck that could be even more destructive than the gaudy bursting of the high-tech bubble in 2000.
This talk might seem a foolhardy boast, soapy residue from the high-tech bubble that popped back in March of 2000, but for two critical factors.
The problem with this strategy, however, is that Cisco end up paying top prices for Net Speed and Growth Networks acquired at the peak of the high-tech bubble.
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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.
But Nasdaq has been hard hit by the bursting of the high-tech bubble, seeing some of its companies go out of business and others fail to meet its listing requirements.
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The chief rap against Greenspan is that he loosened money too much after the high-tech bubble burst in 2000--01 and kept it loose even when the economy began to recover vigorously in 2003.
Finding that out rather burst our gleaming high-tech bubble, and got us down almost as much as waking up this morning to find that the rainy season had hit Tokyo and that the accursed radio was playing "Rainy Days and Mondays".
The analysis, compiled by CoreLogic deputy chief economist Sam Khater, looked at 16 major U.S. housing markets where bank-owned inventory (REOs) have been relatively high since the housing bubble burst.
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In America and other former bubble economies, household debts are worryingly high, and banks need to bolster their capital.
High rates of foreclosure in bubble states have freed workers to leave for more promising markets, including the once too-expensive cities from which such migrants previously fled.
The economists were increasingly concerned that fiscal and monetary policy were too stimulative to the economy, which means they are worried that economy-boosting government spending and low-interest rates could eventually result in damaging high inflation or an asset bubble.
Japanese remember foie gras as a high-priced luxury of the bubble-economy years.
Even a relatively small amount of gas a can cause big problems because a gas bubble will expand massively as it moves from high pressure at the seafloor to lower pressure at the surface.
"We had a very high multiple and you called it a bubble, " says Son.
In 2000 Sealed Air even entered a pumpkin-dropping contest in Iowa, releasing an 815-pound pumpkin--nicknamed "Gourdzilla"--onto layers of Bubble Wrap, from a 35-foot-high crane.
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