Sentences with phrase «about financial bubbles»

To find out, U.S. economist Dean Baker, who has written extensively about financial bubbles, says we need to ask if there is a fundamental reason that gold has become more valuable.

A sharp increase in loans payments that are 90 days or more delinquent is thought to be behind the actions which, after several years of record subprime loan originations, is leading some market observers to talk about another financial bubble.

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In fact, if I were RS, I'd worry more about financial and other sectoral (housing) bubbles ending expansions more than I'd worry about full employment driving wage - push inflation.

It was in Kindleberger's book that I also first learned about the impact of the Franco - Prussian War of 1870 - 71 and the subsequent reparations payments on global financial markets (which I discuss extensively in a February blog entry) and in unleashing the final stage of a global liquidity bubble that ended with the various panics of 1873.

But you've also talked about the need to stabilize financial markets, even «leaning» against asset price bubbles.

It is 100 % higher than in 2008, when we were not worried about a Chinese financial bubble.

We can argue about that, but there's no denying that D - F was put in place precisely because under - regulated financial markets helped inflate the housing bubble which kinda blew up the economy.

We won't pound the tables about imminent recession until we observe fresh weakness in the equity market (even a 7 - 8 % market loss would sharply raise our probability estimates), but it's important to recognize that financial risks are already fully developed, and as in other bubbles, one usually finds «catalysts» to blame for a collapse only well after the downturn is in full - swing.

Before the 2008/2009 financial crisis during the 2007 economic bubble, the margin debt of the NYSE was only about 2.62 % of US GDP, just short of the dot - com bubble high of 2000.

It is time to talk about how financial bubbles form and not how they end.

Instead of embracing realistic expectations and a time - tested approach, you may be tempted to react to predictions about bubbles ahead or another financial crisis on the horizon.

And I would say that thinking about the housing bubble before the financial panic.

Richard: Great insight as always, and last time we talked about the commercial real estate bubble and we thought today we'd do a special focus on the millennial generation and how financial repression through repressed interest rates and quantitative easing has resulted in asset bubbles that ultimately have affected the millennial generation in terms of their values, how they look at the economy and life and the way they're conducting themselves in the economy: what they're facing in terms of the housing market and the job situation.

Last time we talked about the commercial real estate bubble and we thought today we'd do a special focus on the millennial generation and how financial repression through repressed interest rates and quantitative easing has resulted in asset bubbles that ultimately have affected the millennial generation in terms of their values, how they look at the economy and life and the way they're conducting themselves in the economy: what they're facing in terms of the housing market and the job situation.

For example, an investor who fell victim to the dotcom bubble or 2008 financial crisis and sold their equity positions at the absolute worst time would feel anticipated regret if they were to think about re-investing in the stock market again.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

At the peak of the housing bubble ten years ago, there was about $ 1.3 trillion worth of subprime mortgages in the financial system.

The Big Short, an upcoming film about the housing and credit bubble that led to the financial crisis of 2007 - 08, is lining up one of the better casts in recent...

The financial and educational costs were difficult to gauge, but stories bubbled up about teachers who were afraid to use Title I staplers on essays by non — Title I students and Title I staff who wouldn't break up playground fights between Title I and non — Title I students due to liability concerns.

Zac Bissonnette's latest book, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, is a fascinating cautionary tale about where financial hysteria can lead — and who gets hurt when a bubble abruptlyBubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, is a fascinating cautionary tale about where financial hysteria can lead — and who gets hurt when a bubble abruptlybubble abruptly pops.

A decade later, he voiced concerns again about bubbles forming in the real estate and financial sectors... and we all know how those turned out.

Understanding, you know, the pathology of bubbles is not an unimportant — we had one that was more severe, in fact there was an article in the Omaha World Herald about three months ago that described how it was more severe, we had a bubble in the Midwest in the early «80s in farmland that created much more financial dislocation, but it was limited to the farm belt than this particular bubble has which has not hit as hard in terms of housing in the Midwest.

Generation X is the most anxious about retirement by far, having weathered the collapse of the dot - com bubble in the early 2000s and the 2008 financial meltdown, as well as sluggish wage growth during their formative adult years.

OTHER He is well - known for being prescient about the 2008 financial crisis; the Asian crisis months before it happened; warning his clients to cash out before Black Monday in 1987; forecasting the burst in the Japanese bubble in 1990; correctly predicting the collapse in US gaming stocks in 1993; foreseeing the Asia - Pacific financial crisis of 1997/98; and so on.

There's no shortage of fear mongering in the financial media these days about the looming bond bubble.

Find out what 3 of the biggest financial bubbles in history can teach you about choosing your investments.

Some utilities are making decisive moves away from fossil fuels, and financial giants ranging from Norway's sovereign wealth fund to the Bank of England are hearing murmerings about a potential «carbon bubble».

Meanwhile a housing and financial bubble bursting in China, and the inflationary bubble in the US funded by the magic money of the Fed are both set to burst into undeniable reality any time soon, will at least drive down fossil fuel use during the looming new global recession about to hit from the two biggest economies on the world going someways down the toilet.....

Yet Marks — who according to CNBC gained notoriety for his prescient calls about both the dot - com bubble and the financial panic of the late 2000s — took a decidedly negative tack in a new memo earlier this week.

Finding out how little financial experts know about the blockchain during this hype bubble is rather worrisome.

This «Bitcoin rush» has defied the many warnings that some financial analysts have been giving about it being a potential bubble waiting to pop.

There are several people around the world from the financial world who are still sceptical about cryptocurrencies, claiming that the impressive increase of last year was only another of the numerous bubbles experienced over the years and that it was going to come to nothing in the end.

According to a report Monday by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) was taking steps to curb the «speculative transactions of cryptocurrencies, amid global worries about a bubble.»

The price of bitcoin, the most popular and well - known blockchain - based digital currency, had shot up dramatically — and then fallen as rapidly — in December, prompting concerns about a bubble in a financial instrument whose investment value is still being hotly debated.

The volatility of crypto - assets has prompted an intense debate about whether they are a bubble, just another fad, or a revolution equivalent to the advent of the internet that will disrupt the financial sector and eventually replace fiat currencies.