Sentences with phrase «credit bubble by»

Sometimes the art world actually lags behind society, and the bursting of its preachy - self - indulgence bubble follows rather than leads the collapse of the economy's credit bubble by a couple of years.

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The latest change in tone may also reflect an additional concern - that low interest rates are fostering financial instability by promoting bubbles in asset prices and stimulating excessive credit creation.

The aim of bank marketing departments — backed by the Obama administration — is to steer credit to re-inflate the bubble and thus save financial balance sheets from their current negative equity position.

For example, a reduction in capital inflows can deflate asset bubbles and so discourage consumption through wealth effects, or such a reduction can lower consumption by raising interest rates on consumer credit, or even by encouraging stronger consumer lending standards.

MH: All bubbles are inflated by credit, and the Federal Reserve under Allan Greenspan created a huge amount of credit that was lent out to almost anybody for any purpose.

To explain, I point out that if the Fed had done nothing in response to the bust of 2000 - 2002 then there would have been a severe recession, but the economy would probably have made a full recovery by 2004 and there would have been no mortgage - credit / housing - investment bubble and therefore no 2007 - 2008 crisis.

The Bush plan to privatize Social Security is basically Pinochet's and Thatcher's «pension fund capitalism» expanded to orchestrate bubbles by inflating asset prices on credit.

This development is particularly troubling since the housing bubble's height was stimulated in large part by sub-prime lending to homeowners with marginal credit.

Still, by applying moral suasion, Mr. Carney was attempting to keep a credit bubble from inflating to dangerous proportions.

The result was a temporary worldwide credit bubble, followed by a wave of loan defaults, falling housing prices, banking losses and a dramatic tightening of bank lending.

Based on the non-fiction novel by Michael Lewis «The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,» the film tells the story of the build - up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s that led to the discovery of mass subprime fraud and the financial crisis of 2007 - 2010.

The number of comics shops peaked in 1993 because of easy credit offered by the dozen distributors at the time — and while it caused sales figures to skyrocket, it was no more indicative of health than any other bubble market.

Controlling bubbles can be done by controlling credit, and that is what the Fed tries to do — control credit, which is money in our era.

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Without strong US job growth in this growth cycle and driven by rising US consumer debt obligations and a US housing value bubble, the US then lead the world into another financial or «credit crunch» crisis that was far worse than the dot com crash.

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Thus, the credit bubble, facilitated by the Fed and the banking regulators.