Still, however painful, this is not the same sort of bubble as the first internet boom-and-bust.

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And you don't get as many distortions as you've gotten in this sort of bubble-and-bust cycle that we've had.

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The market had gotten over the tech bubble bursting and was being fueled by an overexpansion of another sort, in the housing market.

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On being named boss in April he vowed to transform Nomura into a global financial powerhouse of the sort it was in the 1980s, before the Japanese bubble popped.

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Anyone with any imagination has been expecting some sort of crashing in of the larger world into this little bubble of American bliss for years, if not decades.

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