For Mr Lindsey has made no secret of the fact that he considers the American economy to be suffering from an asset-price bubble.

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It was Mr Mieno who was responsible for popping the bubble and he was far too late in realising how much damage this would do to the economy.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

He rightly points out that any assessment of America's economy based on the peak of its Internet bubble in 1999-2000 would be misleading.

ECONOMIST: Global politics