The real mystery, and ultimately the reason most
asset bubbles last, is why certain asset markets tend to spike randomly in the first place.
Even if economists and the Fed chairperson struggle to identify them, there are plausible reasons to explain why
asset bubbles last so long.
Not exact matches
The company is also seeking deeper inroads into rare diseases, with a number of
assets in late - stage development, and
last year it scored a major regulatory win when Europe approved its «
bubble boy syndrome» gene therapy Strimvelis.
The solution to our macroeconomic issues has been to inflate new
bubbles, to inflate
asset values to soften the blow from the
last bubble, all the while creating the conditions for the next one.
What is inter alia noteworthy here, is that all it took for the
last two
asset bubbles to burst (pre-bitcoin era) was a slowdown in the growth of money and credit (the two are intertwined most of the time).
Specifically the
asset price inflation that you've seen has largely been ignored by Keynesians in the
last two
bubbles.
Mark Whitmore: Well, batting clean - up here is a little tough, because as Bill mentioned, I think that people have really nicely covered a lot of the main, sort of theoretical tenants of Austrian Economics, I guess I would add that specifically the role of central banking is something that I think is really distinct from an Austrian perspective vs Keynesianism, specifically the
asset price inflation that you've seen has largely been ignored specifically in the
last two
bubbles, and now we're into a third
bubble I would argue as well.
So that's what happened
last time around and we now have a
bubble in sovereign bond and those are the most senior
asset class in the financial system.
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.
No one knows how long the current government - and Central Banks - driven
bubble in bonds and financial
assets will
last.
Bubbles pop when investors have to feed the
asset in order to hold the position, and that never
lasts long.
Editor's Note Editor's Note
Last year may go down as the year that cryptocurrencies went from being a niche
asset favored by a relatively small group of believers to a full, outright
bubble.
Last fall I devoted a lengthy post to the notion that future policies to address climate change expose investors in companies producing fossil fuels to a
bubble in
asset valuations.
A Natixis Investment Managers Survey of 500 global investors managing more than $ 19 trillion of
assets has found that «nearly two - thirds [of survey participants] said Bitcoin was in a
bubble, and this was a month before the cryptocurrency surged above $ 10,000
last week.»
George Soros, who called cryptocurrencies a
bubble in January, was said
last week to have authorized his US$ 26 billion family office to trade digital
assets