Not exact matches
One person who pointed out the dangerous
asset bubble developing in 2005 was economist Robert Shiller, whose composite Case - Shiller index,
created in the 1990s, studies real estate
prices nationally and in key urban areas.
Republican critics say they fear that by flooding the financial system with money, the Fed has inflated stock and real estate
prices and could
create asset bubbles that could pop with dangerous consequences for the economy.
But, over time, the longer central banks
create liquidity to suppress short - run volatility, the more they will feed
price bubbles in equity, bond, and other
asset markets.»
About the author: JS Kim is the Managing Director and Founder of SmartKnowledgeU, a fiercely independent research, consulting and education firm that focuses on gold and silver
asset investment strategies as a means of countering the damaging effects of rapidly devaluing fiat currencies worldwide and
price - distorted stock market and
asset bubbles created by Central Bankers.
The key intuition is that, by
creating a
bubble in the market
price, savers» demand for the housing
asset for investment purposes imposes a negative externality on borrowers, who only demand the housing
asset for utility purposes.
It has become easier to ride the wave of
asset -
price inflation — the stock market and real estate
bubble — than to
create new material means of production.
Monetary policy can drive up
asset prices and
create a
bubble, Mr. Stiglitz said in an interview, «but consumption isn't going to go up.
An alternative view - I hope you and other readers will call out any holes in my reasoning: -
Bubbles tend to be
created when the
price people are willing to pay become disconnected from the value of the underlying
assets.
Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve kept interest rates too low for too long, stoking an
asset price bubble and
creating a leverage binge of epic proportions.