Bubble
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When the
bubble
burst, the ECB tried to prevent the excessive prices from returning to their equilibrium levels by using its printing press and promising unlimited coverage to investors.
Japan made a similar mistake when its property
bubble
burst in 1990.
But, given the ECB’s apparent determination to head in the opposite direction, the
bubble
will only grow.
Is the price increase justified, or are we witnessing a
bubble?
While cheap money had little impact on business investment, it fueled a real estate bubble, which is now bursting, jeopardizing households that borrowed against rising home values to sustain consumption.
When the credit
bubble
collapsed in 2008, China's export markets suffered.
For years, Cyprus had an immense banking bubble, with the sector’s assets estimated at roughly seven times the country’s GDP, as foreign money poured into a tax haven within the eurozone’s secure environment.
The design of the bailout has been shaped both by domestic pressures faced by eurozone leaders and by the exceptional nature of the Cypriot banking bubble: many European leaders suspect that the island had become a money-laundering center for Russian individuals and entities, which pumped an estimated one-third of the €68 billion into the country’s banks.
So in a sense, the Chinese
bubble
– as much an intellectual and political
bubble
as an economic one – has burst.
In the run-up to the euro crisis, Italy had undergone a long period of stagnation, while Spain had experienced an American-style housing
bubble
and Greece was suffering from too much government-fueled growth.
The only relevant comparisons are with the Japanese real-estate bubble, which burst in 1991 (and from which Japan has not recovered), and the Great Depression of the 1930’s – except that this crisis has been quantitatively much larger and qualitatively different.
A Better Economic Plan for JapanNEW YORK – It’s been a quarter-century since Japan’s asset
bubble
burst – and a quarter-century of malaise as one “lost decade” has followed another.
France, in the aftermath of a property and asset-price bubble, is vulnerable to some of the same combination of banking and public-finance problems.
In addition to the downturn in real estate, a broader
bubble
in consumer credit is now collapsing: as the US economy slips into recession, defaults on credit cards, auto loans, and student loans will increase sharply.
The economic boom that borrowing ushered in turned out to be nothing more than a credit
bubble
that eventually burst (with the financial panic of 1837).
The ensuing property
bubble
resulted in white elephants in Dublin’s financial district, row upon row of new blocks of flats in the middle of nowhere, and a mountain of mortgage debt.
When the
bubble
burst after 2008, land prices collapsed, debts went bad, and Ireland’s private banks failed.
In the early 1990’s, Sweden suffered a huge recession precipitated by a housing
bubble
and a banking crisis.
And as France continues to assert its powerful role in Africa, and establish a role for itself (and the EU) in Asia, unsuspected frictions with America will likely
bubble
up.
But, given the huge size of China’s credit
bubble
and the enormous amounts of money needed to recapitalize the banking system, only some of them will be bailed out.
The collapse, not long after, of the dot-com
bubble
in 2000-2001 brought on not a depression but merely an output decline so mild as to barely warrant the name “recession.”
The “popping” of such an asset
bubble
is what happened in Japan 10 years ago, an event from which that country has not yet recovered.
Only when the credit
bubble
burst – triggering an abrupt adjustment, rather than the gradual adaptation of skills and human capital that would have occurred in more normal times – did millions of workers suddenly find themselves unemployed.
The dot-com
bubble
of the late 1990s was a misestimate of the timing, not the magnitude, of the digital revolution.
$700billion in preferred stock with warrants may be sufficient to make up the hole created by the bursting of the housing
bubble.
If not reversed, this combination of very loose fiscal and monetary policy will at some point lead to a fiscal crisis and runaway inflation, together with another dangerous asset and credit
bubble.
Avoiding another asset and credit
bubble
from arising by including the price of assets like housing in the determination of monetary policy is also important.
As they speculate in riskier assets and accumulate more debt, the risk of an asset
bubble
grows.
But not always: whereas the Wall Street boom of the 1920s ended in the Great Depression, the tulip
bubble
of the 1630s seems to have had little impact on the Netherlands’ medium-term growth path.
When the
bubble
bursts, the afflicted country can restore competitiveness only through a painful process of real depreciation.
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