This led to real alarm among policymakers whenever a threat to confidence appeared (as when the dot com bubble burst at the end of the 1990 s).

During the dot com bubble, prices signaled huge demand in the Internet sector.

The dot com bubble wasn't a threat to the banking system as such, but rather a threat to aggregate demand.

BRUSSELS The first decade of this century started with the so called dot com bubble. When it burst, central banks moved aggressively to ease monetary policy in order to prevent a prolonged period of Japanese style slow growth.

That bubble has burst.

After financial implosions, such as the collapse of the dot com bubble in 2000 or the sub prime meltdown of 2007 8, such views appear arrogant.

They made the bubble burst.

Indeed, the intermittent over valuation of entire economic sectors recall the dot com bubble from a decade ago indicates that financial markets are often excessively focused on the long term.

The collapse, not long after, of the dot com bubble in 2000 2001 brought on not a depression but merely an output decline so mild as to barely warrant the name recession.

In the fourth act, the real estate bubble will burst.

They were slashed again in 2001 and kept ultra low after the dot com bust.

So in a sense, the Chinese bubble as much an intellectual and political bubble as an economic one has burst.

But another housing bubble is not imminent in countries where one just burst.

The bubble has now burst, and these economies are heading into a steep recession.

Thus, even in extreme situations like the peak of the dot com bubble in late 1999 and early 2000 it is very difficult even for those who believe that they know what fundamental values are to make large long run bets on them.

The dot com bubble of the late 1990s was a misestimate of the timing, not the magnitude, of the digital revolution. Likewise, Manyika and Baily argue that the much discussed Internet of Things is probably some years away from showing up in aggregate productivity data.

And back in the early 20th century, the pursuit of powered man flight was like the dot com of the day.

Unfortunately, sometimes prices fail to perform this signaling function properly, as the dot com and housing bubbles in recent years showed.

First, in contrast to the dot com boom, it is difficult to identify the technological shock that set off the boom.

At that time, Japan s budget deficit soared after the country s property bubble burst, causing economic stagnation.

As Greenspan notes, it was the dot com boom of the 1990 s that finally gave broad currency to Schumpeter s idea of creative destruction.

Following the credit bubble burst in 2008, fiscal transfers replaced these private financial flows, causing budget deficits to balloon.

Germany did not have a real estate bubble that threatened to burst, as did Great Britain, Ireland, Spain, and France.

We do not want to inflate another asset price bubble on the scale of the one that burst in 2007 2008.

Even after its property bubble burst 24 years ago, the authorities continued to believe that the country s growth model needed no adjustment.

The decline in the WES indicator during the last two quarters was the sharpest since 2001, when the stock market bubble burst.

The dot com boom and bust is often compared to the Gold Rush. But Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos says it s more like the early days of the electric industry.

This prospect may seem surprising, given that Japan has already lost two decades since its economy s bubble burst in the early 1990 s.

There are many reasons why the bubble has burst, and why gold prices are likely to move much lower, toward 1,000 by 2015.

The cheap credit ushered in by the euro fed an inflationary economic bubble in southern Europe that burst when the financial crisis hit.

Now that the housing bubble has burst, the US finds itself out trained, out educated, and out maneuvered in the global competition for employment.

In 2005, the founder of Blink said, I don't think it was that we were 'too early' or that we got killed when the bubble burst.

Various real estate markets in California experienced sharp increases in value in the early 2000s, followed by declines in 2007 and 2008, as a housing bubble burst.

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Bernanke had also supported the low interest rate policy implemented after the dot com collapse, which, in the view of many economists, was maintained for too long, fueling the boom and contributing to the bust.

In the fourth act, the real estate bubble will burst. A reasonable guess would be that Moscow s astronomic real estate prices will fall by at least two thirds.

Only Ireland continued on a path of rapid deflation as it has since the country s real estate bubble burst in 2006 with a relative price decrease of 2.2 .

Both bubbles have long since burst, and US households are now dealing with post bubble financial devastation namely, underwater assets, record high debt, and profound shortages of savings.

The subsequent burst of the housing bubble in the United States caused banks to fail, because banking had gone global and the big banks held one another s bad loans.

Now that the bubble has burst, America s current economic downturn is likely to be far worse than previous ones, because US enterprises will have to be rebuilt, slowly and carefully.

His reappearance comes just as the credit bubble fueled by the sub prime mortgage boom is about to burst, triggering the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression.

As a result, a housing bubble, a mortgage bubble, an equity bubble, a bond bubble, a credit bubble, a commodity bubble, a private equity bubble, and a hedge funds bubble are all now bursting simultaneously.

Now ICANN is taking a different tack, allowing for a dramatic expansion of the namespace with a host of new Top Level Domains (TLDs), the suffixes that go after the dot, such as .com, .org, and, soon, .anything.

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