Remember, aside from the bubble run-up, technology stocks tended to sell at only a 20% to 30% premium.
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The Federal Reserve has cranked up the bubble-machine again, pumping up opportunities as well as risk.
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Not only does it allow for various categorical organization and featured games, but it also enables popular games to bubble up naturally via thumbs-up icons that users can employ for each game.
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McKinsey makes the striking claim that "the ratio of UK household debt to disposable income would not return to its pre-bubble trend for up to a decade" - which implies that as we in the UK look for a return to more normal levels of economic growth, momentum is not going to be provided by consumer spending for perhaps up to 10 years.
The cynic in me sees the bubble-makers blowing up a new one.
The bubble-heads have set up 35 labs where they woo prospects with demonstrations of packages being dropped on concrete floors, vibrated as if they were on the back of a truck driving over cobblestones or placed in vacuum chambers to see how the bubbles respond to altitude.
The U.S. is still reeling from the manipulative build-up of the housing bubble, the sub-prime mortgage mess, the resulting real estate crash, and the financial crisis of 2008 that required a multi-trillion dollar bailout of banks and brokerage firms.
Long before vast numbers of such Flexible Fuel Vehicles are on the roads, the OPEC cartel-induced speculative bubble that has contributed to the recent run-up in the price per barrel of oil will be lanced.
Heidiland initiatives include Heidi coins, make-up, bubble bath and, in the pipeline, Heidi chocolate.
In Singapore, a very successful start-up called Bubble Motion that provides Twitter for voice, is growing rapidly in countries like India and the Philippines.
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For instance, a stockmarket bubble typically encourages a build-up of debt.
Yet investors still stuck in a bubble-era mindset have bid shares up 158% in the last 12 months.
The multicoloured balls in bubble-gum machines could be picked up in a girl's dress, or the red of a stiletto shoe matched with the frame of a shop window.
The prototype for MIT's CityCar (a bubble-shaped two seater that goes up to 55 miles per hour) is only 8 feet long and folds to half that size, for easy stacking.
In rural Quang Ngai province the authorities are seeking hoteliers to develop its golden, palm-fringed and empty beaches, and dream of building spa resorts around the hot-water springs that bubble up through the province's rice paddies.
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"An over-reliance on the housing bubble and personal debt exaggerated income growth in the run-up to the recession, " said TUC general secretary Brendan Barber.
Until a month or so ago, the Fed had been fretting about a growing financial bubble and the risk of a pick-up in inflation.
After reaching record highs in the build-up of the dotcom bubble in the early 2000s, the U.S. dollar has been on a steady decline, punctuated by temporary risk aversion.
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As readers of the Monetary Watch are aware, the run-up to the housing bubble turn credit implosion turn Great Recession saw a string of 36 months of double digit growth for a cumulative increase of 48%.
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Bubble Wrap first had to take on balled-up newspaper, no easy sell because that packing material was essentially free.
In true ASEAN style, the below-the-surface griping is unlikely to bubble up.
While in the December 1998 11434 was broken as the Dow made its way up the dot-com bubble, in September 2008 it was broken as it was about to tumble down the busted housing bubble.
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After such a big run-up in housing prices in the bubble years, what would you expect?
Likewise, the bubbles and crashes that have afflicted asset markets ever since Holland's tulipmania in the 17th century and right up to the subprime-mortgage bubble are also cousins of the prisoner's dilemma.
As we have noted in past Monetary Watch commentaries, the run-up to the now infamous housing bubble turn credit implosion turn Great Recession saw a string of 36 months of double digit growth.
To put those numbers into perspective, the run-up to the now infamous housing bubble turn credit implosion turn Great Recession saw a string of 36 months of double digit growth for a cumulative increase of 48%.
The market for new issues heated up in the first few months, with bubble-era leveraged buyout targets like HCA and Kinder Morgan going public alongside the new crop of technology companies including cloud names and the social media vanguard with the likes of LinkedIn.
For those who have lost count of the institutions that were pulverised by the financial crisis, Anglo Irish was an erstwhile star of Ireland's banking scene, which rose quickly from inauspicious roots during Ireland's heady growth in the 1990s, only to rack up enormous property-related losses when the bubble burst.
Finding that out rather burst our gleaming high-tech bubble, and got us down almost as much as waking up this morning to find that the rainy season had hit Tokyo and that the accursed radio was playing "Rainy Days and Mondays".
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