Instead, the collapse of stock market and real
estate bubbles forced its government to commence one of history's greatest Keynesian experiments.
Not exact matches
Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real
estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now
forced to do) which
forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).
Their self - destructive real
estate bubble has loaded down their labor
force with high debt service and housing costs, whilst their giveaway of public infrastructure to insiders (with no price regulation) has led to high basic living costs.
This was the prize coveted by Bill Ackman when he acquired a large block of Target shares during the peak of the real
estate bubble, and subsequently tried to
force management to spin off the real
estate holdings into a separate company and to lease back those stores, thereby «unlocking» value.
With the real
estate bubble bursting, a lot of people here in Orange County, CA have lost their homes, maxed out credit cards, and have been
forced into renting a home instead owning.
The real
estate bubble is compounding financial difficulties for many Canadians and sometimes they are
forced to choose between mortgage payments and medical treatments, says Easy Legal Finance Inc. president and CEO Larry Herscu.
In 2006, the real
estate bubble in Florida was in full
force.