Sentences with phrase «speculative asset bubbles»

Behind Germany and ahead of some of the oil producers, it runs the largest current account surplus in the world, which means that it is exporting its excess savings in a world that has nowhere to put the money, and so the world must respond either with speculative asset bubbles, unproductive investment, debt - fueled consumption binges or unemployment.

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Speculative bubble dynamics are actually not required for a painful boom - bust cycle in asset prices.

Aside from acceptable «basis» risk between the stocks we hold long and the indices we use to hedge, and perhaps 1 % of assets in option time - premium at any given time as a result of staggering our strikes to provide a stronger defense, we don't consider various speculative bubbles as threats to our own returns.

To me this makes metals a speculative investment, and identifying a bubble in metals is even harder than identifying one in income - producing assets that can more easily be valued.

The greater fool theory can help to explain how speculative bubbles are formed in different assets.

Ultimately, the problem is simply one of overpriced assets: they bought during a speculative bubble and are now unable to refinance out as prices return to more appropriate levels.

A succession of asset bubbles has formed in China, caused by a torrent of speculative money sloshing from stocks to bonds to commodities.

Indeed, most central bank chatter in 2017 was about bitcoin - mania, with many (India, France, Russia, China, New Zealand, etc.) calling it a speculative asset and some even a bubble.

«We're fresh off a speculative bubble across crypto assets, so true valuations won't make much sense right now,» Petar Zivkovski, COO of leveraged cryptocurrency trading platform Whaleclub, told CoinDesk.

SEOUL (Reuters)-- South Korea said on Wednesday it may tax capital gains from cryptocurrency trading as global regulators worried about a bubble, with Australia's central bank chief warning of a «speculative mania» that has seen the digital asset making rip - roaring gains.

This trend mirrors a widely held view that crypto assets are in a bubble and in a purely speculative mania, but the underlying technology is a promising innovation that could transform industries.

Switzerland's drive to become the global hub for cryptocurrency should allay fears about the speculative bubble involving digital assets.

One sign that this resembles a speculative bubble is that REO - to - rental has become a new asset class.