GE's turbine business collapsed in the wake of the U.S. power bubble, with sales falling to 122 units last year from 323 in 2002.
Loosening of the traditional distinction between banks and building societies that made mortgage loans helped power a housing bubble in the 1980s, Prof.
Regulators in the United States had total power over subprime lending but as the bubble built, they used that power not to raise down-payments or credit standards, but to lower them.
During his last years in power, Saddam was living in a bubble, a fake world sealed off from the real world by underlings too scared to tell him anything other than a pack of lies.
This rapid increase in the number of buyers and their purchasing power will likely drive home prices into a bubble.
And with a big presence now in Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, and India, Bubble Motion is benefiting from star power there. 1, 000 Asian celebrities use the product and they have a powerful influence on the rest of the population.
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In March, I called for the CME to use its power to take the air out of the oil bubble.
Further appreciation will cut into a rising real estate asset bubble, and give Chinese consumers more buying power by encouraging Chinese manufacturers to shift production away from the export markets, to making and marketing goods and services for the domestic market.
For Warhols, Lichtensteins and Jeff Koons' work, the sales matched the Internet bubble in 1999 when tech houses with no visible earning power sold north of 10 times revenues or even a multiple of paid clicks.
With Spain's housing bubble burst and the economy contracting, Mariano Rajoy's conservative Popular Party swept to power in a landslide general election win in November 2011.
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