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In this regard, however, the stock-market bubble that developed in the first half of the year should be viewed as an exception.
When such a debt-fueled bubble bursts, its effects are transmitted directly to the real economy via household-sector balance sheets, with the reduction in consumption contributing to a decline in employment and private investment.
To be sure, China’s stock-market bubble did not emerge until recently.
But it was a bubble – and a highly leveraged one at that.
While periodic bubbles may be unavoidable, and no bubble is without consequences, a highly leveraged bubble tends to cause far more damage, owing to its impact on the real economy and the duration of the deleveraging process.
A busted bubble led to a massive Keynesian stimulus that averted a much deeper recession, but that also fueled substantial budget deficits.
By any traditional definition, there is a bubble.
The value of stocks is almost twice GDP, far more than ever in history and at least a quarter higher than at the peak of Japan's bubble a decade ago.
First, unlike when the Japanese bubble bust, the balance sheets of US banks are good and real estate is not overpriced.
If financial regulations are loosened too much, the result could be another asset and credit bubble, and even another financial crisis and recession.
Although (like many others) he identified a housing bubble in 2006, he did not foresee the financial chain reaction that would fuel a global crisis.
As a result, returns on assets are likely to decline compared to the recent past; with prices already widely believed to be in bubble territory, a downward correction seems likely.
Houses in the AirOver the past six months, attention and worry have shifted from America’s enormous trade deficit to its surging property markets and real-estate bubble.
On top of these two powerful fundamental factors sits a bubble.
The bubble is filled by people with money who are buying extra houses because they think home prices will continue to rise, and by people without money who are buying $400,000 houses in less-fashionable neighborhoods with zero percent down and floating interest rates.
The end of the American housing bubble might not turn out badly.
Increased fear of competition from emerging countries is also a natural consequence of the collapse of the speculative bubble in equities in 2000; stock markets in some countries fell to less than half their peak value.
Interest rates are too blunt an instrument, and risk damaging the wider economy when used to prick a housing bubble, as recent research by BOE Deputy Governor Charlie Bean has shown.
The third mode is like the second: a bursting bubble or bad news about future productivity or interest rates drives the fall in asset prices.
Since late summer, the United States Federal Reserve has been attempting to manage the slow-moving financial crisis triggered by the collapse of America’s housing bubble.
By exploiting a record credit bubble to borrow against an unprecedented property bubble, American consumers spent well beyond their means for many years.
Fears of a shadow-bank-induced credit bubble now top the worry list, reinforcing longstanding concerns that China may succumb to the dreaded “middle-income trap” – a sustained growth slowdown that has ensnared most high-growth emerging economies at the juncture that China has now reached.
Europe's Overdue ReformationWar and its huge cost; the falling dollar; mounting trade and budget deficits; the chicanery that hollowed out companies like Enron and WorldCom; the bursting of the high-tech bubble: capitalism American-style is both under strain and under a cloud.
Central banks are better at restraining markets’ irrational exuberance in a bubble – restricting the availability of credit or raising interest rates to rein in the economy – than at promoting investment in a recession.
Rather than spurring investment in plant and equipment, low interest rates inflated a real-estate bubble.
After the Gold RushVENICE – The run-up in gold prices in recent years – from $800 per ounce in early 2009 to above $1,900 in the fall of 2011 – had all the features of a bubble.
And now, like all asset-price surges that are divorced from the fundamentals of supply and demand, the gold bubble is deflating.
There are many reasons why the bubble has burst, and why gold prices are likely to move much lower, toward $1,000 by 2015.
Relatively young small countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East can also benefit by examining the secrets of Singapore’s success, the causes and effects of Ireland’s property bubble, and Denmark’s decision to build strong counter-terrorism capabilities, despite its relative safety.
China’s real-estate price bubble is often named as a likely catalyst for a crisis.
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