We had the bursting of the tech bubble.

NEW HAVEN You might think that we have been living in a post bubble world since the collapse in 2006 of the biggest ever worldwide real estate bubble and the end of a major worldwide stock market bubble the following year. But talk of bubbles keeps reappearing new or continuing housing bubbles in many countries, a new global stock market bubble, a long term bond market bubble in the United States and other countries, an oil price bubble, a gold bubble, and so on.

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A new bubble will replace the old one.

The bubbles, not my bubbles, but the financial bubbles.

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Bubble Spotting

Bubble Trouble

Bubbles Forever

Bubbles in the Broth

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The Trouble With Financial Bubbles

The Great Emerging Market Bubble

America s Education Bubble

The Gold Bubble and the Gold Bugs

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There are times when being proven right brings no pleasure. For several years, I argued that America s economy was being supported by a housing bubble that had replaced the stock market bubble of the 1990 s.

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.

Letting China s Bubble Burst

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Israel s Election in a Bubble

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(Little bubbles, in the price of, say, individual stocks, happen all the time, and don t qualify as an answer to the question.) And, because big bubbles last for many years, predicting them means predicting many years in the future, which is a bit like predicting who will be running the government two elections from now.

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Why Small Booms Cause Big Busts

Maybe the word bubble is used too carelessly.

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But if financial markets are already frothy now, consider how frothy they will be in 2015, when the Fed starts tightening, and in 2017 (if not later), when the Fed finishes tightening? Last time, interest rates were too low for too long (2001 2004), and the subsequent rate normalization was too slow, inflating huge bubbles in credit, housing, and equity markets.

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.

Speculative bubbles are the visible manifestation of that temptation. As the bubbles burst and they always do false prosperity is exposed and the defensive tactics of market manipulation become both urgent and seemingly logical.

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. Here, Greenspan holds his ground, and pleads not guilty.

Since their collapse in 2007, US households have understandably become fixated on repairing the damage. That means paying down debt and rebuilding savings, leaving consumer demand mired in protracted weakness.

They're now putting bells in the bubbles.

When both bubbles burst first housing, and then credit asset dependent US consumers were exposed to the American strain of the Japanese disease first diagnosed by Nomura economist Richard Koo.

There have been three colossal stock market bubbles in the last century the 1920 s, the 1960 s, and the 1990 s. In contrast, there has been only one such bubble in the United States housing market in the last hundred years, that of the 2000 s.

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Frei Otto was starting to use foam bubble diagrams and foam bubble models to generate his Mannheim Concert Hall.

But there is also a higher risk of disaster, owing to a seemingly inborn human tendency to extrapolate past returns. Investors could create a stock market bubble, encouraging even more naïve investors to concentrate their personal retirement accounts in the stock market and leaving them dangerously exposed when it crashes.