The trends that worked so happily together to boost real estate to bubble levels have now become surly and uncooperative.
Stocks and bonds are at bubble levels just the way housing values were before they collapsed in the last decade.
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Yet thanks to election year rhetoric, this story is being buried under a curtain of heavy gloom creating opportunities to buy stocks way below bubble levels.
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.
So we think on the upside, during the bubble, these testosterone levels were making the traders insensitive to risk-reward signals but also insensitive to price signals such as the rate of interest.
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Nominal home prices, they note could push nominal prices in 2015 to exceed levels reached during the housing bubble.
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In China, governmental officials at the national and the local levels profited beautifully from the property bubble.
Meanwhile, BoJ officials have long expressed fears that aiming for significantly higher levels of inflation could trigger a bubble in asset prices -- or worse, a collapse in the currency.
However, its margins and growth seem so bubble like, that the counter argument is these levels of business are unsustainable.
Record debt levels taken on by consumers in the bubble times were passed on to banking systems when households defaulted on their mortgages and loans.
Record debt levels taken on by consumers in the bubble times were passed on to banking systems when the bubbles burst and households defaulted on their mortgages and loans.
Is it ennui that leads investors to pour into tech IPOs like Pandora and LinkedIn at levels that reminded everyone of the last tech bubble?
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At these levels, if Hong Kong is not a housing bubble, then nothing is.
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Contrary to the post-bubble narrative of a buyer-less housing glut, inventory levels in some markets have contracted.
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Bubble memory, a way of storing 0s and 1s by manipulating energy levels, had been invented in the labs in 1966.
In 2001, long after the bubble had burst, it was projecting tax revenues to remain at record levels well into the new millennium.
Home prices are climbing rapidly in the Bay Area, where the economy is performing better, and could reach 2007 pre-crash levels within the next year or two, if the current tech bubble continues.
The differences in GDP growth will affect the exchange rate and relative levels of wealth in China and the U.S. The housing bubble in China continues to be controlled, and property prices in most of the larger cities will increase in the next 12 to 24 months.
The bubble societies of Asia, and the failure of the Muslim world to achieve even middling levels of prosperity, show that economic development is unsustainable without a shift in people's mind-sets and in social structures.
That further pumped up the housing bubble, and exploded their pollution of U.S. and world financial markets to toxic levels.
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The college bubble is not big enough already, and government should continue to distort capital markets towards artificially high levels of college expenditures.
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