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During the bubble years before the 2007 crisis, prices and wages increased sharply in the eurozone periphery, relative to Germany, which was plagued by high unemployment and stagnant wages.
For example, the confluence of deleveraging and the bursting of the equity bubble could create a self-reinforcing downward spiral in the old manufacturing economy that shakes consumer confidence and offsets the emerging dynamism of the new services economy.
Current unemployment is as low as at the peak of the dot-com bubble in 2000.
What many analysts still see as a temporary bubble, pumped up by artificial and unsustainable monetary stimulus, is maturing into a structural expansion of economic activity, profits, and employment that probably has many more years to run.
After all, the housing bubble was caused, in part, by pushing credit on households so that they would spend the US out of the recession that followed the dot-com bust.
We lived the better part of the subsequent decade with a misguided sense of extended prosperity and inflated a financial bubble.
Financial institutions and markets assumed productivity would continue to grow at the pace of the late 1990’s, which fostered an asset-price boom that conveyed an illusion of well-being; those not directly involved in the financial bubble were coopted through buoyant international trade.
Japan’s economy has suffered two decades of slow growth because of the poor policy decisions that followed the collapse of the country’s massive asset-price bubble in the early 1990’s.
But there are also deeper social and political forces at play – forces that threaten to push Italy, like Japan after its asset-price bubble burst in 1990, toward silent decline.
Regional current-account balances were interpreted as the upshot of infallible optimizing behavior by market participants, rather than, for example, the result of a real-estate bubble in Spain and elsewhere.
An international elite of Olympic officials arose, living in a self-contained bubble of wealth and privilege.
If America’s bubble economy is now tapped out, global growth will slow sharply.
The essential role of asset inflation has been especially visible as a result of the housing bubble, which also highlights the role of monetary policy.
Low interest rates eventually jump-started the expansion through a house price bubble that supported a debt-financed consumer-spending binge and triggered a construction boom.
In a speculative bubble, for example, everyone buys because everyone else is buying, causing prices to become disconnected from economic fundamentals.
At a certain point, the bubble bursts, and everyone sells.
Jeffrey Frankel wrote, “In a speculative bubble…everyone buys because everyone else is buying…[then] the bubble bursts, and everyone sells.”
Exhibit B in the case against attributing financial developments in China to government intervention is the stock-market bubble that culminated in June.
The finger-wagging implication is that Chinese policymakers, particularly the stock-market regulator, have only themselves to blame for the bubble.
The event that ultimately seems to have pricked the bubble was the China Securities Regulatory Commission’s June 12 announcement of plans to limit the amount that brokerages could lend for stock trading.
One is that Japan still suffers from the collapse of a financial bubble in the late 1980s.
When Japan’s financial bubble burst in 1990, the exchange rate stood around 140 Yen/1dollar.
The bursting of the US housing bubble acted as a detonator that exploded a much larger super-bubble that started developing in the 1980’s when market fundamentalism became the dominant creed.ampnbsp;
If a tightening of margin and minimum capital requirements does not deflate a bubble, regulators can tighten some more.
The just-collapsed credit bubble, fueled by so-called special investment vehicles, derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, and phony triple-A ratings, was built on the illusions of mathematical modeling.
Japan waited almost two years after its asset bubble collapsed to ease monetary policy and provide a fiscal stimulus, whereas in the US both steps came early.
With the support of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, President George W. Bush pushed through a tax cut designed to benefit the richest Americans but not to lift the economy out of the recession that followed the collapse of the Internet bubble.
The housing price bubble eventually broke, and, with prices declining, some have discovered that their mortgages are larger than the value of their house.
Just as the collapse of the real estate bubble was predictable, so are its consequences: housing starts and sales of existing homes are down and housing inventories are up.
The housing bubble induced Americans to live beyond their means – net savings has been negative for the past couple of years.
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