The economic crisis punctured many bubbles, not just financial bubbles but the bubbles of complacency.
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In stock markets, financial bubbles grow with the help of several types of positive feedback.
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Here he shows how spending makes things more expensive, causes chronic inefficiencies and leads to more debt and financial bubbles.
Through two financial bubbles and a global financial crisis, non-OECD demand has stair-stepped its way to nearly doubling in less than 20 years.
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The picture they reveal of failing ambitions, both imperial and economic, throws light upon themes and impulses that are still with us today, from financial bubbles to the aftermath of empire.
Many other positive feedbacks such as the wealth effect, relative valuation methods, and the increased ability to borrow against inflated asset prices operate in financial bubbles and bull markets.
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We have a foundation economically upon which to build in the 21st century that doesn't rely on financial bubbles or housing bubbles or .com bubbles, but relies on strength in our manufacturing sector, strength in education, strength in innovation and strength throughout the country economically.
He said monetary policy is typically ill suited to dealing with financial market bubbles.
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.
Folks, ultimately, we believe that this is the right path -- the path that will lead us to a robust economic recovery, one that fuels broadly shared prosperity, driven by hardworking people filling good jobs, not by speculators inflating bubbles and financial shell games.
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Somehow to me this smells like another one of those bubbles created by financial product manufacturers and sellers based on recent short term track records.
Bubbles provide curmudgeonly financial scribes with great mounds of juicy copy.
" Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages", by Carlotta Perez.
But cutting interest rates as a first response to any distress in the financial sector has helped to blow bubbles in asset prices dotcom stocks in the late 1990s, house prices in the 2000s.
George Cooper is the author of The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles and the Efficient Market Fallacy.
Investment bubbles are always rooted in the financial structures which provide the cash.
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.
The South Sea and Mississippi bubbles of the early 1700s are legends in financial history.
Over just a decade, the U.S. and global financial systems have been rocked and roiled by mondo-bubbles in tech stocks, house prices, Asian and Latin American markets and commodities.
Bubbles, as described by Charles Kindleberger, a financial historian, usually involve an initial displacement, followed by rapid credit creation and then a phase of euphoria.
We still believe that Blowing Bubbles in emerging markets may well develop into the next Financial Mania.
The bursting of the commodities and housing bubbles would not have threatened the very existence of our financial system had it not been for the perversity of mark-to-market accounting rules.
When the financial crisis struck, they were blamed for allowing the housing and credit bubbles to build, and for failing to foresee the bust.
The German financial establishment was complicit from the beginning in the inflating of some of the bubbles in the afflicted nations.
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After so many financial crises in the past 40 years most reasonable people would now accept that bubbles in asset markets can exist.
Greed and recklessness always run rampant during bubbles, and the mania that engulfed housing and much of the financial sector was no exception.
Bubbles are a social phenomenon at least as much as they are a financial phenomenon.
After all, if those new bubbles were permitted to inflate to levels sufficient to once again threaten our financial system, Chairman Bernanke would someday be forced to look back on QE2 as the bonehead move of his once-illustrious career.
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Previous terms for these episodes were bank failures, financial panics, runs on currency, debt crises, liquidity runs, national defaults, bubbles, hyperinflation.
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