On the other hand, those policies, years later, would be blamed for stimulating the housing boom that eventually led to a bubble that burst.
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And now that that bubble has burst, it's left devastation that we're still grappling with today.
Some investors are beginning to think that clean tech itself was a bubble, and that bubble has burst.
The edifice complex that drove the builders of the Empire State Building helped fuel the bubble that burst into the Great Depression, such that the building sat practically empty for years.
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He baled out of his country's overinflated property market before that bubble burst.
But when the subprime mortgage crisis hit, when those mortgages were called up on Wall Street, that bubble burst, leaving devastation everywhere.
When that bubble burst, so did the funds.
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Perhaps we will look back on 17 June 2011 as the day that social bubble burst.
We have also seen, because of the housing bubble that burst, construction workers out of work.
Banks face more damage from the risky lending that primed a burst property bubble.
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The housing bubble that burst nearly six years ago triggered, as we all know, the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes.
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Probably the single greatest cause of the financial crisis and this brutal recession has been the housing bubble that burst four years ago.
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Short of knocking down the million unsold new homes left after the property bubble burst, that will not pick up for many years.
That bubble would burst, of course, but during the great inflation Silicon Valley stopped funding technology companies, got greedy, reached beyond its core competency and began funding business models.
Motorola, by contrast, has never recovered from the aftermath of the telecoms bubble that burst in 2000-01: its share price today is one-sixth of what it was at its peak.
We saw what happened over the past decade when we strayed from those values -- especially when it comes to the massive housing bubble that burst and hurt so many people.
Alas, a similar logic makes it hard to be as optimistic about America's stockmarket, which last suffered a bubble that burst, and stayed burst, 70 years ago before most of the people now dealing in equities were born.
While the moment was romantic -- let's not forget the bubble she found herself in -- the story they tell these days is more about how that bubble was burst by a street vendor trying to sell them a rose.
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Last December, I predicted that 2011 would the year that the commodities bubble burst.
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But the scary thing is that the bubble will burst eventually, when financial markets lose confidence in us.
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That a housing bubble burst will propel us back into the Dark Ages.
On April 17, 2002, Greenspan downplayed the idea of a housing bubble comparable to the dot-com bubble that had burst in 2000.
The biggest risk to the Australian economy is that the housing bubble could burst.
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Lax monetary policy allowed Americans to build up debts and fuelled a housing bubble that had to burst eventually.
Raising rates when markets are beginning to look effervescent could forestall the disruption that a bubble and subsequent burst would bring.
But now that the Nasdaq bubble has burst and Europe's economies seem temporarily to be outpacing America's, the mood is different.
Now that the technology bubble has burst, Mr Buffett's strategy of conservative bricks-and-mortars investments has turned out to deliver better long-term returns.
But the popularity of the new light-rail system (along with the spectacular burst of the housing bubble) suggests that Phoenicians may be considering a sustainable (shudder) lifestyle.
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