That stimulus, mostly in the form of fixed asset investments in infrastructure, followed by low interest rates, fueled a hard asset bubble that the Chinese government has been trying to pop since last year.
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Britain's deficit proved to be unsustainable, causing the economy to suffer a hard landing once the bubble burst.
The construction industry was hit brutally hard when the housing bubble burst.
With the debut of the Kindle Fire HD, the dot-com bubble survivor is working hard to build out its own ecosystem with as little reliance on others as possible.
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Sometimes it's hard to break out of the bubble here in Washington and remind ourselves that behind these statistics are people's lives, their capacity to do right by their families.
Like so many other spirits, I was first introduced to the cane spirit during college after it had been blended (poorly) into a trash can filled with sparkly carbonated stuff a ton of artificial fruit juices, some citrus that I think was left over from the previous year, bubble gum and some hard candies with ice bought at the gas station up the street.
Mr Greenspan argues that it is hard to be sure what constitutes a bubble.
The result was a bubble in inflation-hedging hard assets (housing above all), followed by a bust that precipitated a financial crisis.
Because it was a long time since they had seen a previous bursting of a property bubble, investors found it hard to imagine it happening again.
Hard hit by the bursting of the housing bubble, the desert metropolis is welcoming a fresh influx of newcomers, particularly from California and the Midwest.
It is hard to say whether gold is in a bubble, or if we have simply entered a new era of interconnectedness in the global economy that will continue to drive the demand for gold.
This freshly minted cash would then flee into hard assets, and off goes a new asset bubble.
It is hard to see the economic rationale for creating a bubble in the middle of the tax code.
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But Nasdaq has been hard hit by the bursting of the high-tech bubble, seeing some of its companies go out of business and others fail to meet its listing requirements.
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Yes, big corporate money likes a good old hard landing, the sky is falling, the housing bubble is popping like a Fourth of July gone terribly wrong, and manufacturing fleeing to build in Alabama story.
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What makes the success of "Clybourne Park" so interesting is that American theater is a monoculture, a thick-walled bubble in which you'll look long and hard to find anyone with an opinion about anything that is anywhere other than well to the left of center.
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There are three issues driving the China hard landing narrative: the loan quality of the banking system, the property bubble and inflation.
By raising interest rates to prick the bubble of inflation, the Fed induces a mild recession that is particularly hard on smaller companies.
This may speed up as recent tax hikes squeeze the hard-pressed middle class and if, as appears likely, the social media bubble continues to deflate.
Since delaying the crisis will only increase its magnitude, when a quantitative bubble in public debt seems likely to burst, the responsibility for making hard choices falls on central banks.
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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.
South Africa, with a strong economy, provides attractive fixed-income opportunities while India, with a massive need for infrastructure investment, is a hard market to access given relatively under-developed capital markets. (Read: No Credit Bubble In Brazil, Just Dangerous Consumer Debt Burden).
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