Sentences with phrase «fuel a credit boom»

In so doing, this flow of saving helped to fuel a credit boom and risk - taking in major advanced economies, particularly in the United States, thereby sowing the seeds of the global financial crisis.

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The credit boom has been fueled by strong economic growth, a robust property market and a crackdown on riskier shadow lending, which has forced banks to shift some loans back onto their balance sheets.

The operative question was, how much was mortgage credit and stock market credit fueling a financial boom that increased the prices at which assets were being transferred above what it would cost someone to simply create these assets afresh.

The result has been that the «resolution» of each of these financial crises created massive amounts of high - grade excess liquidity that was not withdrawn when market order was restored and provided the fuel that would produce the next credit boom and bust.

Easy availability of credit in the US, fueled by large inflows of foreign funds after the Russian debt crisis and Asian financial crisis of the 1997 — 1998 period, led to a housing construction boom and facilitated debt - financed consumer spending.

Ireland was the hot place in the EU, and now the bigger boom, fueled by easy credit, has given way to a bigger bust.

While the humanization trend and the empty nests of Baby Boomers often get the lion's share of credit for fueling the success that the pet care market has enjoyed in recent years, that success ultimately may not have been possible without the handful of product manufacturers that have long served as the bedrock upon which the retail pet industry was built.