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If someone does have such a reputation, their predictions can become self-fulfilling prophecies: if they predict, say, a stock-market crash, everybody will begin to sell their shares, bringing about the predicted outcome.
At the end of 2000, at the height of the Internet stock boom and just before the 2001 crash, the economists James Glassman and Kevin Hassett published Dow 36,000 .
All too often, the process does not end smoothly but in a crash.
Moreover, Ahmadinejad openly advocates Iran’s crash program to obtain nuclear weapons.
So, despite all the handwringing over a Chinese crash, the rapid shift toward a services-based economy is tempering downside pressures in the old manufacturing-based economy.
The crash came in 2009, as Ireland’s real estate boom turned to bust, leaving the country with large insolvent banks, a collapse in budget revenues, and Europe’s largest budget deficit.
“The crash will come if things go on like this,” Otto von Bismarck wrote in the nineteenth century.
The most worrisome financial threat is that currently over-priced bond markets will crash.
The truth is that the stock market can crash while the economy is doing well, and vice versa.
One could criticize the Chinese regulator on the grounds that the effect of its moves to increase margin requirements did not last long; or one could criticize it on the grounds that its moves caused the recent crash.
And yet European solidarity is fraying, to say the least, thanks to the migrant crisis and the economic aftermath of the 2008 financial crash.
The novelty of Summers’s argument is the claim that “secular stagnation” began 15-20 years before the crash.
If we are to prevent the slow-motion car crash of rising AMR, our leaders must take evasive action now.
At the core of preventing another banking crash is solving the problem of moral hazard – the likelihood that a risk-taker who is insured against loss will take more risks.
In Europe, countries have threatened to crash out of the eurozone unless the European Central Bank or other European governments underwrite their unsustainable debt; and European policymakers have threatened to cut off support to certain countries unless they implement reforms.
Neither Turkey nor Europe can afford the all-too-foreseeable crash.
The NTSB is investigating the Uber crash and previously assessed a fatality involving a Tesla vehicle.
The Wall Street crash of 1929 kicked the legs out from under a struggling international order.
The risk of a global crash has been low, because deleveraging has proceeded apace in most advanced economies; the effects of fiscal drag are smaller; monetary policies remain accommodative; and asset reflation has had positive wealth effects.
Many investors interpreted last August’s unexpected devaluation of the renminbi by 1.9% against the US dollar – the first decline following years of steady appreciation – as a last ditch effort by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to stave off an economic crash.
As a consequence of the crash of 2008, several member countries became over indebted, and risk premia made the eurozone’s division into creditor and debtor countries permanent.
After the crash of 2008, Merkel insisted that each country should look after its own financial institutions and government debts should be paid in full.
There are some eerie resemblances with the financial conditions that prevailed in the US in the years preceding the crash of 2008.
For example, people were really agitated when the Dow dropped 3.8% on December 6, 1928, nearly a year before the famous 13.5% crash on Monday, October 29, 1929.
Despite a generally rising market, the Dow fell by 3.6% on February 7, 1929, 4.1% on March 25, 4.2% on May 22, 4% on May 27 and August 9, 4.2% on October 3, and 6.3% on October 23, before the infamous “Black Monday” crash.
This, and a more elaborate questionnaire that I sent out after the next “Black Monday” crash on October 19, 1987, convinced me that nothing more sensible is occurring than just what newspapers describe: speculators, responding to changing market prices, and fearing further changes in the same direction, simply decide to bail out.
Ever since the current crisis began in 2007, many people have been wondering if the Great Depression that followed the 1929 stock-market crash and the banking crises of the early 1930’s is relevant to our experience today.
Likewise, many people have been wondering if the weakness that followed the equity and real-estate crash in Japan at the beginning of the 1990’s is relevant to our experience today.
As the US current-account deficit rose over the past half-decade, international economists have lined up to predict doom: returns on assets invested in the US are relatively low, so at some point - probably all at once - holders of dollar-denominated securities will realize that the risk of suffering a major crash in value is not being adequately compensated.
Once portfolio investors start selling their dollar-denominated securities, a stampede will follow, causing the dollar's value to crash and triggering the first major global financial crisis of the twenty-first century.
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