But what if the bubble this time is in government bonds, not equities?
The bubble this time was not in valuations and their relation to interest rates, the usual metric, but in debt and leverage.
More likely, the Fed is creating another asset bubble, this time in the bond markets.
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Whether or not the house-price bubble bursts this time around, the north-south house-price differential is already shrinking.
After a decade of tepid growth and some years of job losses, Silicon Valley has blown itself another huge tech bubble, this time driven by the social media craze and a surge in private-equity investment.
Still, it is tempting to conclude that the current marketing hype of the big computer firms is meant mostly to obscure the humdrum reality that overall tech spending will not regain the fizz of the bubble era any time soon.
Although it now clearly looks like a bubble, at the time, there were many who justified the prices paid for tulips by comparing their relative value to other food and commodities such as wheat, rye, swine, and cheese.
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By the time the credit bubble blew up in 2007 they had grown to 40%.
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In the 1980s an ostrich bubble blew again, this time in the States.
This time, the bubble has taken the form of secret trading in derivatives.
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Whether YC and others will reduce their size remains to be seen, but if there was an accelerator bubble, it looks like correction time.
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Aside from the recent housing bubble and subsequent collapse, over time home prices have risen at about the same rate of inflation, the financial equivalent of treading water.
If Greenspan had acted responsibly and taken some of these steps, as some of us have urged at the time, the housing bubble could have been contained before it was too late.
As much as I loved Jericho and Swingtown because we were having a great time in our little bubble making the show, we always knew we were swimming against the tide and it's nice to not feel that way with this show.
Be mindful that a 10 year time horizon avoids the internet bubble.
When it comes time to fill in the bubble, they're not quite as ready to be as color-blinded they might think that they are.
This time it is the inflation bubble, particularly in commodities.
We had a technology company come to us some time ago, before the tech bubble burst, with a difficult problem.
More money went into the stock market during the last quarter of 1999 and first quarter of 2000, when now we know there was this Internet bubble, more money went in at that time than ever before and it didn't go into value stocks, it went into these high-tech funds.
At the same the Internet bubble kind of collapsed a little bit at that time.
The borrower also failed to disclose he was buying other properties in the area at the time, ( Florida during the bubble) and lied that he would occupy the home as his primary residence.
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This is quite a warning that the bubble in the Dow Transportation Average could pop at any time.
If you click on a bubble, you can see the number of murders over time, dating back to 2004.
Over a longer time frame, from the start of the bubble to the present, only a handful of the big firms have delivered capital gains for their investors.
Since the bursting of the tech bubble in March 2000, the markets have had a torrid time.
Proposed by Mexican theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994, the drive would propel a ship at superluminal speeds by creating a bubble of negative energy around it, expanding space (and time) behind the ship while compressing space in front of it.
Stocks will then crash, big time, taking down the economy and deflating the commodity bubble for good.
The first is that the bubble forming in the private market could be pretty big by the time it floats into the public one.
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