market bubble
description: economic phenomenon of very high prices driven by speculation
256 results
Gambling Man
by Lionel Barber · 3 Oct 2024 · 424pp · 123,730 words
Masa, had been buying and the valuations had kept rising through each round of funding. But at the end of the cycle, when the stock-market bubble burst, investors like Masa were holding overvalued assets which could not be IPO’d at acceptable prices. So VC investors like Masa were left without
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in post-bubble period, 155–6; real estate bubble (late 1980s), 3, 80–83, 84–5, 124, 136; ‘salaryman culture’, 3, 21–2, 124; stock market bubble (late 1980s), 80–83, 84–5; TV market, 112, 113–16, 117–19, 120, 121; weak financial governance standards, 123; zaibatsu, 5, 134 Jobs, Steve
Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz · 8 Jul 2024 · 259pp · 89,637 words
a monopoly on trade in North America. Law issued shares in the company in exchange for public debt securities. This eventually led to a stock market bubble that burst in 1720. See Janet Gleeson, Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999). The Railway Mania
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was a classic stock-market bubble in the United Kingdom in the 1840s (and not the only bubble in railroad stocks). As railway share prices increased, speculators moved in pushing prices
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Insurance Corporation, 1984). 15. Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz, “How We Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Market Bubbles,” Fortune, July 13, 2021, https://fortune.com/2021/07/13/stock-market-bubbles-investing-spacs-positive-legacies-economy/. 16. Strictly speaking, Chuck Prince was commenting on financing leveraged buyouts in a July 2007
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, 210 Kennedy, John F., 108 Keynes, John Maynard, 23, 108, 199 Khrushchev, Nikita, 71–72 Kitchen Debate, 72 Korea, 68, 124 Krugman, Paul, 73 labor markets bubbles and, 189–190 financial crises and, 249 future of, 245–247 growth and, 57–60, 60f, 68–70, 69f inflation and, 153, 154, 155–157
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, 210, 211f, 212 trade and, 225 uncertainty, 256 cyclical risk profile and, 33–44 models and, 20–23 navigating, 18–19 unemployment. See also labor markets bubbles and, 186 inflation and, 145, 155–157, 156f, 157f technology and, 92, 99–101, 102, 245–246 United Auto Workers (UAW), 99 United Kingdom Brexit
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
, including the savings-and-loans crisis of the 1980s, the crash of October 1987, the bursting of the Japanese real estate and stock market bubbles in 1991, the emerging-markets bubbles and crashes of 1994 and 1997, the collapse of the US hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, the implosion of the
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fact, testosterone, which has been called the “fuel of exuberance,” has been identified as a key contributor to the trader behavior that leads to speculative market bubbles and crashes. See John M. Coates and Joe Herbert, “Endogenous Steroids and Financial Risk Taking on a London Trading Floor,” Proceedings of the National Academy
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stable finished product, new knowledge, and hopefully more wisdom. As we show in Part II of this book, in the history of technology and financial markets, bubbles have often accelerated the development, diffusion, and adoption of many transformative innovations. They can occur beyond markets in large-scale scientific or engineering projects, such
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, we need to take a deeper look at the irrational exuberance that fuels technological progress. And for this, we must turn to the metaphysics of markets, bubbles, and technology more broadly. Beneath the spectacular boom and bust sequences and the emergence of category-defining and world-changing technologies, behind the utilitarian talk
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
by Didier Sornette · 18 Nov 2002 · 442pp · 39,064 words
, 1990 The Gold Deflation Price Starting in Mid-1980 278 Chapter 8 279 Synthesis: “Emergent” Behavior of the Stock Market 281 Speculative Bubbles in Emerging Markets bubbles, crises, and crashes in 285 emergent markets 281 286 Methodology Latin-American Markets 295 Asian Markets 304 The Russian Stock Market 309 Correlations across Markets
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3500 Index 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 84.5 85 85.5 86 86.5 Date 87 87.5 Fig. 7.9. Hong Kong stock market bubble ending with the crash of October 1987. On October 19, 1987, the Hang Seng index closed at 33624. On October 26, it closed at
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fit 11000 Index 10000 9000 8000 7000 6000 5000 4000 3000 92 92.5 93 93.5 94 Date Fig. 7.10. Hong Kong stock market bubble ending with the crash of early 94. On February 4, 1994, the Hang Seng index topped at 12,157.6. A month later, on March
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bonds also gave a clear signal of the market reversal and of the minimum range of the stock price change during the Hong Kong stock market bubble of 1997 and its subsequent crash [82]. Recall that convertible bonds are debt instruments that can be converted into equities at a certain price, which
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end of the Hong Kong bubble [82]. There is thus additional information to be found in the relationship between underlying stocks and their derivatives during market bubbles. The best fit of the logarithm of the S&P 500 index from January 1991 until September 4, 1997 by the improved nonlinear log-periodic
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.5 Date 0 91.9 91.7 0 1 2 3 4 5 Frequency 6 7 8 Fig. 8.7. Left panel: The Argentinian stock market bubble of 1991. See Table 8.1 for the main parameter values of the fits with equation (15). Right panel: Only the best fit is used
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92.4 Date 92.6 92.8 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 Frequency 6 7 Fig. 8.8. Left panel: The Argentinian stock market bubble and antibubble of 1992. See Table 8.1. Right panel: Only the best fit is used in the Lomb periodograms. Reproduced from [218]. 8 291
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93.9 Date 94 0 94.1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Frequency 6 7 8 Fig. 8.9. Left panel: The Argentinian stock market bubble ending in 1994. See Table 8.1 for the main parameter values of the fit. Right panel: Only the best fit is used in the
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96 96.5 Date 97 97.5 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 Frequency 6 7 Fig. 8.10. Left panel: The Argentinian stock market bubble ending in 1997. See Table 8.1 for the main parameter values of the fit. Right panel: Only the best fit is used in the
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97 Date 0 97.2 97.4 0 1 2 3 4 5 Frequency 6 7 8 Fig. 8.11. Left panel: The Brazilian stock market bubble ending in 1997. See Table 8.1 for the main parameter values of the fit. Right panel: Only the best fit is used in the
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.6 93.8 Date 94 0 94.2 0 1 2 3 4 5 Frequency 6 7 8 Fig. 8.26. Left panel: Indonesian stock market bubble ending in January 1994 with log-periodic power law fit with parameters m2 = 044 tc = 199409, and = 156. Right panel: Lomb periodogram
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96 96.5 97 Date 97.5 98 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 Frequency 6 7 Fig. 8.27. Left panel: Indonesian stock market bubble ending in 1997 with logperiodic power law fit with parameters m2 = 023 tc = 199805, and = 101. Right panel: Lomb periodogram of the
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93.5 94 Date 94.5 0 95 0 1 2 3 4 5 Frequency 6 7 8 Fig. 8.28. Left panel: Korean stock market bubble ending in 1994 fitted by the logperiodic power law formula with main parameters m2 = 105 tc = 199487, and = 815. Right panel
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93.4 93.6 93.8 Date 94 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 Frequency 6 7 Fig. 8.29. Left panel: Malaysian stock market bubble ending with the crash of January 1994 fitted by the log-periodic power law formula with main parameters m2 = 024 tc = 199402
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.5 92 93 Date 93.5 0 94 0 1 2 3 4 5 Frequency 6 7 8 Fig. 8.30. Left panel: Philippine stock market bubble ending with the crash of January 1994 fitted by the log-periodic power law formula with main parameters m2 = 016 tc = 199402
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93.8 93.9 Date 94 94.1 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 Frequency 6 7 Fig. 8.31. Left panel: Thai stock market bubble ending with the crash of January 1994 fitted by the log-periodic power law formula with main parameters m2 = 048 tc = 199407
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time period, say 5 to 10 years, it is bound to do so [162]. To summarize, the growth of the GDP and its associated stock market bubble can be associated with several unsustainable processes in the United States [162]: (1) the fall in private savings into ever deeper negative territory, (2) the
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). GEM: A global electronic market system, Information Systems 24, 495–518. r efe rences 413 342. Renshaw, E. (1990). Some evidence in support of stock market bubbles, Financial Analysts Journal 46, 71–73. 343. Richardson, L. F. (1961). The problem of contiguity: An appendix of statistics of deadly quarrels, General Systems Yearbook
Big Debt Crises
by Ray Dalio · 9 Sep 2018 · 782pp · 187,875 words
bit of an oversimplification, this is the essential dynamic that drives the inflating and deflating of a bubble. The Start of a Bubble: The Bull Market Bubbles usually start as over-extrapolations of justified bull markets. The bull markets are initially justified because lower interest rates make investment assets, such as stocks
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foreign inflows and fewer domestic outflows. Over time, the country becomes the hot place to invest, and its assets become overbought so debt and stock-market bubbles emerge. Investors believe the country’s assets are a fabulous treasure to own and that anyone not in the country is missing out. Investors who
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level that it wouldn’t reach again for over 25 years. It’s important to remember that no specific event or shock caused the stock market bubble to burst. As is classic with bubbles, rising prices required buying on leverage to keep accelerating at an unsustainable rate, both because speculators and lenders
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
by Alan S. Blinder · 24 Jan 2013 · 566pp · 155,428 words
implied a 1 percent expected loss rate per annum, seemed wildly optimistic. So when I came to the part of my speech about the bond-market bubble and put a picture of Wile E. Coyote on the screen, I had Colombian debt on my mind. When I asked who among the assembled
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amazingly favorable default experience of 2004–2006 into the indefinite future. But they did. It was the kind of thinking that led to the bond-market bubble. As investors shifted out of Treasuries into riskier fixed-income securities—whether Columbian government bonds or MBS backed by subprime mortgages—those riskier securities were
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been speculative markets. Indeed, one of the first common stocks ever issued, in the South Sea Company in England, was hyped into the first stock-market bubble—the famed South Sea Bubble of 1720—which devastated, among others, a pretty smart fellow named Isaac Newton. And the Dutch had managed to grow
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and 2000, a massive housing bubble that burst after 2006, and an absolutely frightening bond bubble that exploded in its wake. Unlike the two stock-market bubbles, the latter two spread economic ruin far beyond the financial markets. We learned that financial booms and busts could threaten the nation’s economic fabric
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. Prior to the crisis, the Greek government apparently was perceived as being almost as good a credit as the German government. Did someone say “bond-market bubble”? Second, the spread on Greek debt widened to nearly 3 percentage points during the height of the worldwide financial crisis in early 2009, as investors
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, Sixth Edition
by Kindleberger, Charles P. and Robert Z., Aliber · 9 Aug 2011
The production of books on financial crises is counter-cyclical. A spate of books on the topic appeared in the 1930s following the US stock market bubble in the late 1920s and the subsequent crash and the Great Depression. Relatively few books on crises appeared during the several decades immediately after World
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failure led to tightening of the British money market, withdrawal of call loans from the New York market, and a topping out of the stock market. Bubbles and swindles Some bubbles are swindles, some are not. The Mississippi Bubble was not a swindle; the South Sea Bubble was. A bubble generally starts
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking
by Matthew Syed · 9 Sep 2019 · 280pp · 76,638 words
easy to assume they arrived at it independently. This amplifies its persuasive power, causing others to lean towards it, too. This is where fads, stock-market bubbles and other bandwagon effects come from. Crowds are not always wise. They can become dangerously clone-like. These cascades can happen at a purely social
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
by Edward Chancellor · 15 Aug 2022 · 829pp · 187,394 words
of the decade, inflation started to tick upwards. In 1989, the new Governor of the Bank of Japan, Yasushi Mieno, decided to prick the stock market bubble. The discount rate was raised on three occasions that year, in May, October and on Christmas Day, four days before the Nikkei index reached its
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of international co-operation. And towards the end of their respective booms, both central banks raised interest rates with the aim of bursting the stock market bubble. Like the Fed in the early 1930s, the BOJ allowed deflation to take hold after the Bubble Economy collapsed. Had the BOJ not attempted to
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up with the principal). It was only after the Fed’s easy money policy was launched that credit growth picked up, financial leverage soared, housing markets bubbled, underwriting standards declined and the repackaging of subprime mortgage debt into collateralized debt obligations took off. Low interest rates fed the demand for credit, while
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in the world after Hong Kong.13 On a national basis, Australian housing was deemed ‘severely unaffordable’, trapped in a perpetual bubble.14 A STOCK MARKET BUBBLE During the financial crisis, the New York Fed stumped up tens of billions of dollars to bail out the investment bank Bear Stearns and insurance
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ratio in decades, and margin debt was at an all-time high.15 In the words of one investment manager, this constituted ‘the broadest equity market bubble in history’.16 It was also the longest period of uninterrupted stock gains ever witnessed. By the tenth anniversary of Lehman’s bankruptcy, the US
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coupons provided by US Treasuries.fn2 As long as long-term interest rates remained low, the great bull market had the wind behind it. Stock market bubbles often favour technology companies. This has been the case from the 1690s’ mania in London’s Exchange Alley for diving-bell stocks through to the
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that day was virtual wealth, lacking any counterpart in the real world. BEER GOGGLES The attitude of central bankers to yield-chasing and the bond market bubble, and to increasing credit, duration, liquidity and volatility risk, was one of plausible deniability. Their theoretical models stated that monetary policy shouldn’t change investors
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-yield Bond Market: Third-quarter 2013 Review’, Journal of Financial Management, August–December 2013. Altman, Edward and Kuehne, Brenda, ‘Special Commentary: A Note on Credit Market Bubbles,’ International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, 5 (4), January 2015. Anderson, Benjamin McAlester, Economics and the Public Welfare [1949] (Indianapolis, 1979). Anderson, Jonathan, ‘China
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amortization) was at 8, compared to a median of 3.7 since 1998. 13. Edward Altman and Brenda Kuehne, ‘Special Commentary: A Note on Credit Market Bubbles’, International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, 5 (4), January 2015. 14. In January 2018, the Irish Ardagh Group, a metal and glass packaging business
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(14), 15 July 2016. 31. Paul Singer, ‘Investment Perspectives’, June 2016. 32. Oliver Renick and Liz McCormick, ‘Greenspan Sees No Stock Excess, Warns of Bond Market Bubble’, Bloomberg, 31 July 2017. Greenspan’s claim that there was no bubble in the stock market was based upon the observation that, at the time
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of globalization have much in common with recent experience, being associated with large-scale foreign capital flows, declining interest rates, an expanding financial sector, stock market bubbles and rising inequality. 18. FINANCIAL REPRESSION WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS 1. See Ronald McKinnon, Money and Capital in Economic Development (Washington, DC, 1973), ch. 7 passim
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, 271, 273, 279, 285–6; misallocation of capital during, 43, 114, 148–50, 266–81, 289; relation to real economy, 182–3, 185, 237; stock market bubble in 1920s USA, xxiii, 87–91, 90*, 92–4, 96–8, 98*, 112, 203; at times of low inflation, xxiii, 134, 135; unstable bubbles in
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in post-crisis USA, 183, 183†, 185, 211; robber baron era in USA, 156–9, 203; stability as destabilizing, 82, 143, 233, 263, 285; stock market bubble in post-crisis decade, 175–7, 176*; trust companies in US, 83–4, 84*; US bond market ‘flash crash’ (2014), 138; and volatility, 153, 228
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Economy, 127–8; mass-production techniques, 142; meme stocks, 307; in robber baron era, 158–9; ‘Second Machine Age’ narratives, 128, 151–2; and stock market bubbles, 176; zombies slow adoption of, 153 New Zealand, 119 NFTs (‘nonfungible tokens’), 308 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 218 Nigeria, 262 Norman, Montagu, 82–3, 86, 87, 92
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claims that Strong’s policy of keeping interest rates low and stable while sterilizing temporary inflows of gold ‘was the fuel that fired the stock market bubble … Inadvertently, Strong’s interest rate policy proved to be the original stock market put’ (Mehrling, The New Lombard Street, p. 41). fn8 Both the cyclically
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
by Jonathan Rauch · 21 Jun 2021 · 446pp · 109,157 words
is available,” O’Connor and Weatherall write. “In other words, individually rational agents can form groups that are not rational at all.” Confirmation loops, like market bubbles, can run far afield of reality before they finally break. The cycle is difficult to arrest, because for individuals in the group, group-think can
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