Financial Bubbles

Why It's Hard To Predict Bubbles

Slate | Duncan Watts | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Google, Internet, Linkedin, Initial Price Offering, Investment, LinkedIn IPO, Stock Market, Ipo, Financial Bubbles, Pandora, Business, Bubbles, Business News

The recent sky-high IPO of LinkedIn, along with eye-popping valuations for other social networking and shopping companies, has raised concerns that we...

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"Dr. Doom Says the U.S. Is Really, Really Sick"

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nouriel Roubini, Financial Bubbles, Global Economic Crisis, Business News
Eric Margolis

As this column keeps reporting, China has massive over-capacity in industry, producing a huge, dangerous bubble. China's property market is another giant bubble. When they pop, the globe will tremble.

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Low Interest Rates Could fuel Speculative Financial Bubble: Federal Reserve

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Speculative Ubble, Low Interest Rates, Inflation, Risk Management, Federal Reserve, Jobless Rate, Ben Bernanke, Gdp, Financial Bubbles, The Fed, Risk-Taking, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve doesn't expect the recovery will be strong enough to quickly drive down the jobless rate, and acknowledged its ...

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Ben Bernanke 'Has No Clue About The Causes Of The Financial Crisis': John Carney

businessinsider.com | John Carney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Bernanke Mistakes, John Carney, Clusterstock, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Financial Bubbles, Bernanke Critics, American Economic Association, Housing Bubble, Business News

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Federal Reserve Debates A Bubble-Popping Strategy

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Financial Bubbles, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Leverage, Asset Bubbles, Business News

Amidst calls to bring greater transparency to the Federal Reserve, the central bank's leaders are torn over one key issue: can the Fed pop financial b...

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Krugman: What's Missing In Financial Reform

nytimes.com | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Asset Bubbles, Financial Reform, Krugman, Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection Agency, Banks, Paul Krugman, Bonuses, Financial Bubbles, Risk, Business News

Reform, in other words, probably can't prevent either bad loans or bubbles. But it can do a great deal to ensure that bubbles don't collapse the finan...

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