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This dynamic is similar to that of an asset bubble, albeit faster.
In a bubble, valuations are based on collectively evaluated evidence, and those who enter the market earliest often benefit.
Today, through a combination of irresponsible Republican-led tax cuts, a slowing economy, the bursting of the stock market bubble, and a massive increase in defense spending, huge deficits dominate the fiscal horizon.
As we describe in our new book, A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility, the fundamental cause of the crisis was the deflation of the housing bubble, starting in early 2007.
As the housing bubble burst, both borrowers and bankers suffered.
The banks pushed unsuspecting consumers into risky mortgages, fueling the housing bubble in the first place, and then bet on the bubble themselves, knowing that should things turn sour, the government would bail them out.
The first-order cause of the bubble and the crisis was neither trickery nor hidden risk taking.
The deflation of the housing bubble implied massive losses for banks.
The indictment contains four counts: that Greenspan wrongly cheered the growth of non-standard adjustable-rate mortgages, which fueled the housing bubble; that he wrongly endorsed Bush’s tax cuts; that he should have reined in the stock market bubble of the 1990’s; and that he should have done the same with the real estate bubble of the 2000’s.
The “felonies” of which Greenspan stands accused are the other two charges: that he should have done more to stop the stock market bubble of the late 1990’s, and that he should have done more to stop the housing bubble of the early 2000’s.
Greenspan mounts a similar defense concerning the housing bubble.
The United Kingdom, for example, has had a harder time than other countries for an obvious reason: it had a real-estate bubble (though of less consequence than in Spain), and finance, which was at the epicenter of the crisis, played a more important role in its economy than it does in other countries.
The reason is obvious: its bubble already burst at the end of 2006, before any rescue funds were available.
When will the bubble burst?
Ready for an oil price bubble, anyone?
The single currency caused an inflationary credit bubble in Southern Europe.
When the bubble burst, the region’s competitiveness was destroyed, and Northern Europe was called on to provide huge loan guarantees, public credit, and transfers.
These measures have sustained the wrong relative prices that resulted from the bubble, and papered over the underlying problem.
In short, Juncker’s plan to accelerate eurozone accession threatens to recreate in spades the chaos of the past decade, which started with a bubble in Southern Europe, and culminated in the Greek sovereign-debt crisis.
An inflationary bubble in Eastern Europe, coupled with the dismantling of border controls, could destabilize the entire EU and create a fresh wave of economic migrants into Central Europe.
If they yield to it, the Chinese economy, they argue, may fall into the same deflationary trap that ensnared Japan after the yen’s appreciation in the 1980’s – under US pressure – inflated a catastrophic asset-price bubble.
The ensuing bubble in Japanese housing and equity prices inflated and burst not because Japan succumbed to US pressure to allow the yen to appreciate, but because Japan, in the end, resisted that pressure.
Around the world, newspapers trumpet a "housing bubble" about to burst.
How do we know if the housing market is in a bubble?
A bubble occurs when public expectations for future price increases become exaggerated, pushing prices up to unsustainable levels.
During a bubble, buyers are relatively undeterred by high prices because they think that even bigger price increases will compensate them for spending too much.
The bubble will eventually burst and prices will fall.
At least one aspect of a housing bubble is visible: rapid price increases.
Evidence about a housing bubble in the 1980's was compelling.
Thus, conditions would appear to be consistent with a bubble, though less so than in the 1980's.
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