Sentences with phrase «asset bubbles take»

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Cameron Winklevoss told CNBC that «[Bitcoin] is a multitrillion - dollar asset — I don't know how long it takes to get there,» while UBS's Paul Donovan argued bitcoin is simply a bubble that should be ignored.

The U.K. takes it so seriously that it invested the Bank of England with the power to deflate any asset - price bubbles that it identifies as threats to the financial system.

The notion is that by pursuing a slightly tighter monetary policy, the central bank would take out insurance against the risk that the rise in asset prices is a bubble and that its busting would be disruptive.

But I guess it makes sense because after the NASDAQ bubble burst in March 2000, real estate started taking off partly because the Fed aggressively lowered interest rates, and partly because equity investors looked at hard assets to park their money.

These bubbles provide a classic contrast between the real wealth of nations and what the business press these days calls «wealth creation» that simply takes the form of rising asset prices — «capital gains,» most of which are land - price gains.

While there has been a noticeable shift among family offices toward real estate following the bubble — as many took advantage of the troubled real estate market post-crash and scooped up valuable assets at a discount to pre-recession valuations — this allocation is still remarkable and outside the typical family portfolio composition reported in our survey.

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).

Sustained low rates tend to promote excess leverage, risk taking, and asset bubbles.

To illustrate this, just take a look at how our economy has changed since financial institutions inflated asset prices in the housing market until the bubble burst in 2007.

Despite critics warning that the Fed's policies to keep interest rates low would stoke asset bubbles and inflation, Yellen took a cautious and data - driven approach to withdrawing the stimulus.

Let's take a look at some of the most common economic perspectives on the causes of asset bubbles.

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 issues.37

the European periphery is a bubble («The Euro crisis is not over... the European economies are not going to change for the better for years to come despite all the cheating and breaking of laws»), Value investors need to venture to Russia («when you look at today's opportunity set, you're left with a set of assets where nothing looks attractive from a valuation point of view») or buy gold mining stocks -LRB-» The down cycle could be much bigger than anybody believes if the market realizes that all the actions taken in recent years do not work.»)

Investors and governments should take note of the growing carbon bubble and work to pull asset prices down with regulation, disinvestment and accurate pollution pricing.

Long term, directionally, it is a multitrillion - dollar asset — I don't know how long it takes to get there.We've seen the bubble term thrown around and it's just not the right way to look at this.