So is the world experiencing another bubble, akin to the one that popped so spectacularly in 2000?

如此说来，这个世界正在经历另一场泡沫？ 类似于在2000年壮烈破碎的那场?

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This bubble was a doozy and its pop was felt around the world.

这是一个巨大的泡沫，世界各地都能感受到它破裂的影响。

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Bank lending is growing much more slowly than a decade ago, and Asia is one of few parts of the world not experiencing a housing bubble.

银行贷款增加比十几年前要低，而且亚洲也是世界上没有房屋泡沫的少数地区之一。

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Baily is an author and former adviser in the Clinton administration, says after the failure of Lehman Brothers towards the end of 2008, many of the world's largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky subprime loans.

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You'll remember the description of the world from Genesis 1 as an air bubble essentially that's formed by separating waters above and waters below.

大家都记得《创世纪》1中，把世界的描述1,一个大气泡,上面下面都被水覆盖。

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But after the 2000 burst of the dot-com bubble and the World Trade Center attacks of 2001, Sheppard found that people were less open to innovative, quirky ideas and more concerned about money.

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It was not surprising, then, that its exports should have fallen in the past year as the technology bubble burst and the world's biggest economies headed for recession.

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The second and no doubt leading contributor to the gold bubble has been the world financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the subsequent worldwide central bank policy of monetary expansion to fight financial asset price deflation.

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