Sentences with phrase «because asset price bubbles»

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Bubbles typically occur when investors purchase assets with the expectation of short - term gains because of rapidly rising prices.

I am not arguing that these alternative instruments will be successful in countering asset price bubbles and credit imbalances, because I think bubbles are a permanent feature of the landscape resulting from entrenched human behaviour.

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.

The current one is particularly hair - raising because it's occurring amid the first truly global bubble in asset pricing.

It is a bubble if most buyers are buying because the asset price has been going up and without regard to fundamentals.

With the energy sector showing signs of profound, disruptive change, and with the former chairman of Duke Energy arguing that a price on carbon is inevitable, investors are rightly spooked by the prospect of a carbon bubble — whereby fossil fuel assets become stranded because they either can't be exploited due to climate concerns, or clean energy alternatives simply squeeze them out of the marketplace.

«Ownership of virtual currency is very risky and full of speculation because there is no authority responsible,» the central banker continues, «there is no official administrator, there is no underlying asset underlying virtual currency price and trading value is very volatile so vulnerable to the risk bubble and prone to be used as a means of washing money and financing of terrorism, so that it can affect the stability of the financial system and harm the public.