As for the mooted link to the financial crisis, the timing is dodgy: America's poor fell behind in the 1980s, the credit bubble took off two decades later.
The closest was Baylor, which was left off the bubble on Selection Sunday and then ran roughshod through the NIT tournament.
Hedge funds acquired during the 2006-2007 bubble are being spun off, and the firm lost its leadership position in prime brokerage to Goldman Sachs.
Conversely, we see little risk that increasing the demand for housing will touch off another housing bubble.
Then it took off during the bubble years of the new century, only to gain even more traction as the much of the western world plunged into economic crisis.
For instance, the dot-com bubble eventually reached a point where day-trading retail investors became a dominant force, creating incentives for venture capitalists, underwriters and fund managers to jump on the bandwagon, hoping to hop off before the bubble burst.
Those infrastructure projects could employ a lot of construction workers -- including a lot of Latino construction workers -- who were laid off after the housing bubble burst.
During his last years in power, Saddam was living in a bubble, a fake world sealed off from the real world by underlings too scared to tell him anything other than a pack of lies.
This freshly minted cash would then flee into hard assets, and off goes a new asset bubble.
Is this yet another misadventure on Wall Street, a manic euphoria that makes for a speculative bubble followed by a spectacular blow-off?
To a large degree that represents working off the excess of the bubble years, but unlike in past recessions, the confidence that the government stands ready as a backstop has waned.
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The mania merely resettled up here, off 218th Street, in a bubble on the Harlem River.
You've got millions of construction workers who've been laid off as a consequence of the housing bubble going bust who are ready to get on the job.
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In the 1990s, we had a big bull run and then, starting in 2000 to 2002, we had a huge sell-off in stocks because of the dotcom bubble and bust.
When in 2007, the great California housing bubble collapsed, the inflow of people and dollars dropped off.
Now news of the off-shore oil find has provided a bubble of optimism and a hope that some lengthy wish lists will be addressed.
The bursting of the tech bubble and the minor recession of 2001 knocked about a point off the peak rate of 67.3% in April 2000, but even after the Great Recession ended in June 2009 the rate was 65.7%.
The recession was caused not, as before, by inflation taking off, but by the bursting of an asset-price bubble.
The undoing of the last bubble resulted in massive job losses, a huge stock market sell-off and the disappearance of hundreds of companies.
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There were 56 IPOs by companies with venture capital backing last year, down from 93 the year before and way off from the 264 stock debuts logged at the height of the Internet bubble.
The software puts up an alert bubble whenever the PC is started without the receiver attached, and there's no way to turn this off.
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EU's bubble had much to do with its fear of individual European countries (such as France or Italy) getting off lightly and becoming an industrial threat.
The argument against Mr Greenspan is that it would have been better to seek to prevent a bubble inflating in the first place, even if that meant raising interest rates before consumer-price inflation took off.
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