As they cut interest rates in response to each market wobble, the result was a series of bubbles, first in technology shares and then in housing.

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The team tried to blow up the bubbles chemically and through infrared technology, but decided neither was commercially viable.

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Consider that during this 42-year period we had wars, financial and energy crises, technology and real estate bubbles, and of course periods of high market volatility.

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If anything, after the dot com, technology, and housing bubbles and financial system meltdown, the nation seems to be craving exactly the type of investment that Social Security represents.

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Johnson created "color power technology" for its Scrubbing Bubbles brand.

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The technology works by reducing frictional resistance between the vessel hull and seawater using air bubbles along the bottom of the ship.

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Most notable was after the internet and tech bubbles burst and investment banks were investigated for providing biased research to pump up stock prices of certain technology companies.

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My firm's research suggests that business and consumer confidence there is high, that there is not too much leverage in China's marketplace (leverage, not high prices, is what causes dangerous real estate and stock bubbles) and that the government is investing smartly in infrastructure projects like rail lines, subways and clean technology initiatives that improve economic efficiency and lower the costs of doing business.

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