They have been less affected than most by the economic bubble of the late 1980s.
But overall, most countries that suck in foreign money show the classic signs of an economic bubble.
It is a not only a boutique industry, but has flourished in a bubble, a supply-side economic bubble, destined to burst.
Would the above policies have created an economic bubble, poised to burst?
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The last time that the Tokyo stock exchange recorded an annual loss was 1990, the year Japan's economic bubble burst and property prices collapsed.
Before 2007 the government created an artificial housing and economic bubble by encouraging home buying through a combination of 0% down payments and allowing below-market interest rate mortgages.
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Finally, the most critical part of our strategy is to ensure that we do not return to an economic cycle of bubble and bust in this country.
While Mr. Brown deserves credit for some earlier spending cuts to reduce a large inherited budget shortfall, the budget fails to address long-run structural problems, counting on a cyclical economic recovery and stock bubble for a bailout until the next self-inflicted crisis.
It is hard to see the economic rationale for creating a bubble in the middle of the tax code.
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As ManagingtheDragon.com (MTD) noted almost two years ago in May 2010, fears of a property bubble and an economic meltdown in China have been misplaced.
In other words, Mr Mishkin suggests the Fed should cut interest rates before a deflating housing bubble affects the real economy, even though it resisted acting before an inflating bubble created dangerous economic distortions.
Just like the U.S., the Spanish economic crisis came from a housing bubble.
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The long-running housing market boom could turn out to be a speculative bubble whose bursting damages economic confidence and growth.
Like Japan in the 1980s, America in the late 1990s was given an exaggerated sense of its economic strength by a huge speculative bubble in the country's stockmarkets.
After all, a year or two of sharply higher government spending in the early part of Mr Bush's presidency when economic growth slowed sharply, a stockmarket bubble burst, and America faced unprecedented and confidence-sapping security threats may well have been for the good.
But the President remains confident that he has put forward a budget that meets the critical investments that he thinks America must be making in order to move past the bubble-and-bust economic era into some sustained economic growth, while cutting that deficit in half in four years.
The economic environment after the popping of an equity bubble makes them doubly so.
The problem with America's economy is that the last bubble, the "home-mortgage, derivative, credit default swap bubble" popped, as all economic bubbles eventually do.
In the long term, however, we need to address a set of economic challenges that, frankly, the housing bubble largely papered over for almost a decade.
The central bank had pushed rates down to encourage economic growth after the bursting of the technology bubble in the stock market in 2000 and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
That is why the bursting of the tech bubble did not cause a financial, economic or political crisis.
But they have thrown a cloud over Wall Street generally--along with the economic slowdown and the bursting of the high-tech bubble.
As our civilization has aged, it has become obsessed with erecting economic guardrails, stringing safety nets, straightening curves and legislating Bubble Wrap around almost every conceivable mishap.
Two of these factors are directly related to the horrendous economic tailspin that pundits tell us was caused by the subprime mortgage bubble (something history may adjudicate differently).
Two call-outs show a couple of extraordinarily significant events that highly impacted consumption of the products that use semiconductors: The Internet Bubble Burst of end-2000, and the Global Economic Collapse in the fourth quarter of 2008.
On the economic front, America was in a recession, the dot-com bubble having already burst.
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