In this respect, we need to think hard about what we can do to prevent the
type of speculative bubbles that occurred from causing so much damage in the future.
While it's tempting to dismiss our present concerns on the basis of our difficulties in the advancing
half of this speculative bubble, I am convinced that this would be a profound mistake.
In the 1850s and 1860s, following the
bursting of speculative bubbles in the US and UK railroad sectors, it lent freely to institutions to prevent financial panic, as it did during the Barings crisis of the 1890s.
Nonetheless, the company is also facing questions over the value of its homemade XRP currency, which skeptics say will never — contrary to Ripple's assertions — be integral to bank transfers, and is instead simply the
source of a speculative bubble.
The Chinese economy charged ahead at an unsustainable 10.5 % pace in 2010, sparking concerns of rising inflation and the
risk of speculative bubbles, particularly in the housing sector.
While the focus of market manias changes — mining, biotech, Chinese stocks, housing, etc... — the
outline of a speculative bubbles remains remarkably similar over the centuries.
Similar to forest fires, some believe that when governments and / or central banks attempt to forestall or prevent the
popping of a speculative bubble, this only creates fuel for a bigger problem down the line.
Selling add - on issues of common stock is a very dicey game for most managements whose companies are not benefiting from the
presence of speculative bubbles such as existed in 1998 and 1999.
17 January 2018 Other digital currencies have also dropped sharply in value, adding to
fears of a speculative bubble that could pop at any moment.
Savings and loan associations, earlier the main source of private mortgage loans, could no longer meet the demand; they had sought quick profits in commercial real estate after a 1980 deregulation allowed them to diversify and were crushed by the
bursting of the speculative bubble that followed.
Previous economic crises were caused by the bursting
of speculative bubbles: a technology bubble in 2001 and a real estate bubble in 2009.
One would hope the advent of a futures market now will provide us with an idea of the future price of bitcoin and perhaps take out
some of the speculative bubble element.»