By the time the credit bubble blew up in 2007 they had grown to 40%.
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This time, the bubble has taken the form of secret trading in derivatives.
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But what if the bubble this time is in government bonds, not equities?
The bubble this time was not in valuations and their relation to interest rates, the usual metric, but in debt and leverage.
If Greenspan had acted responsibly and taken some of these steps, as some of us have urged at the time, the housing bubble could have been contained before it was too late.
As much as I loved Jericho and Swingtown because we were having a great time in our little bubble making the show, we always knew we were swimming against the tide and it's nice to not feel that way with this show.
More likely, the Fed is creating another asset bubble, this time in the bond markets.
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Whether or not the house-price bubble bursts this time around, the north-south house-price differential is already shrinking.
Be mindful that a 10 year time horizon avoids the internet bubble.
When it comes time to fill in the bubble, they're not quite as ready to be as color-blinded they might think that they are.
This time it is the inflation bubble, particularly in commodities.
After a decade of tepid growth and some years of job losses, Silicon Valley has blown itself another huge tech bubble, this time driven by the social media craze and a surge in private-equity investment.
Still, it is tempting to conclude that the current marketing hype of the big computer firms is meant mostly to obscure the humdrum reality that overall tech spending will not regain the fizz of the bubble era any time soon.
We had a technology company come to us some time ago, before the tech bubble burst, with a difficult problem.
Although it now clearly looks like a bubble, at the time, there were many who justified the prices paid for tulips by comparing their relative value to other food and commodities such as wheat, rye, swine, and cheese.
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In the 1980s an ostrich bubble blew again, this time in the States.
The borrower also failed to disclose he was buying other properties in the area at the time, ( Florida during the bubble) and lied that he would occupy the home as his primary residence.
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Whether YC and others will reduce their size remains to be seen, but if there was an accelerator bubble, it looks like correction time.
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Aside from the recent housing bubble and subsequent collapse, over time home prices have risen at about the same rate of inflation, the financial equivalent of treading water.
Over a longer time frame, from the start of the bubble to the present, only a handful of the big firms have delivered capital gains for their investors.
Stocks will then crash, big time, taking down the economy and deflating the commodity bubble for good.
News of the company's possible listing comes at a time when rising prices have sparked fears that an asset bubble could be forming in the city's property market.
One may find that low PEs have worked well in the past 10 years, but expand the time horizon to 15 years (to include the internet bubble) and the results may not look as good.
More money went into the stock market during the last quarter of 1999 and first quarter of 2000, when now we know there was this Internet bubble, more money went in at that time than ever before and it didn't go into value stocks, it went into these high-tech funds.
At the same the Internet bubble kind of collapsed a little bit at that time.
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.
That gives us time to think: Which asset class will form the next great bubble?
This is quite a warning that the bubble in the Dow Transportation Average could pop at any time.
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