Simply put, surging capital flows into the US artificially held down interest rates and inflated asset prices, leading to laxity in banking and regulatory standards and, ultimately, to a meltdown.

Moreover, while China may have profited from the rise in government bond prices over the last few years, prices have been inflated artificially by expansionary monetary policy in advanced countries, which implies that the bubble could burst.

There was a housing bubble, and loans were made on the basis of inflated prices.

Europe, too, will get a bloody nose if it keeps trying to artificially prop up asset prices in the periphery.

Maintaining these countries excessive prices and nominal incomes with artificially cheap credit guaranteed by other countries would only make the loss of competitiveness permanent.

Indeed, it is better to let people clean public parks, nurse children, and take care of the old in government facilities than have them do nothing, as in Germany. Even though GDP is artificially inflated, some useful activities are carried out.

SWFs tend to invest in foreign markets more when times are good and security prices are more likely to be inflated, and to divest during market downturns, when divestment offer implies lower than fundamental value security prices.

In fact, the artificially inflated demand for ethanol and for the corn to manufacture it wound up driving up food prices (which pushed roughly 30 million poor people into the ranks of the malnourished). It also ate up more arable land, which led directly to the destruction of rain forests and generally created a situation that will result in more CO2 emissions over the next hundred years.

Keeping domestic prices for food and energy artificially low has proved to be not only ruinously expensive, but also very ineffective in achieving the declared goal of helping to alleviate poverty.

The ensuing bubble in Japanese housing and equity prices inflated and burst not because Japan succumbed to US pressure to allow the yen to appreciate, but because Japan, in the end, resisted that pressure.

The bubble is inflated further by the asymmetry between those who bet that prices will rise and buy, and those who forecast a fall, but stay out because to sell short is too costly.

The policy is rooted in central planning, which, three decades ago, led to artificially low prices and, in turn, to shortages of basic necessities and key production inputs, such as grain and steel.

These this artificially induced consumerism I think it's atrocious.

The late Yegor Gaidar, Russia s first pro reform prime minister, warned the government about the consequences of inflated oil prices, repeatedly arguing that excessive spending growth would undermine the political will for retrenchment when it became necessary.

More importantly, the fears underlying the bicycle theory are wildly inflated.

The Nazarbayev administration has tried to balance relations with Russia and the United States by sending petroleum and natural gas to its northern neighbor at artificially low prices while assisting the U.S. in the War on Terror.

In some instances a graft can be an artificially manufactured device.

Likewise, reactions to the Karadžić decision show how inflated the perceived stakes are.

Aron exaggerated the power of reason, while Sartre inflated the power of action.

Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and sulfur have been detected in the planet's inflated atmosphere.

It also affects negatively the exchange rate by making it appreciate artificially.

CHICAGO When a profitable company is hit by a very large liability, the solution is not to have the government buy its assets at inflated prices. The solution, instead, is protection under bankruptcy law, which in the United States means Chapter 11.

More recently, many advanced countries have discovered a new set of growth models with built in structural limitations excessive private or public consumption, or both, usually accompanied and enabled by rising debt and inflated asset prices, and a corresponding decline in investment.

In short, Israel s current leadership has inflated security into a surreal new cult, trumping morality.

That helped Germany and France, but it also inflated real estate bubbles in Spain and Ireland.

Rather than spurring investment in plant and equipment, low interest rates inflated a real estate bubble.

Be also claimed that Microsoft acted to artificially depress Be Inc.'s initial public offering (IPO).

Clearly, trade data are being inflated as companies carry out fake transactions to bring capital into the country.

)It is likely that this figure is inflated by a substantial number of personal blogs that mention fashion.

Artificially low exchange rates, restrictions on capital flows, and excessively large currency reserves all create global imbalances.

Issuing the stock to the public at an inflated price a year ago, the shares initially traded even higher.

But, while the resulting surge in capital flows to emerging markets stimulated economic growth, it also inflated asset bubbles.

Now Gaza residents are forced to apply for passports in Ramallah, and they use agencies which charge inflated amounts.

Isaiah Berlin put it this way Law sets frontiers, not artificially drawn, within which men shall be inviolable.

Quite a few years later, this element 61 was created artificially in nuclear reactors and was named promethium.

Britain joined America s Iraq adventure with the same inflated perceptions of its military capacity and diplomatic clout that trapped Bush.

It artificially props up consumption growth and allows the government to defer hard choices between taxes and military expenditures.

By keeping its currency undervalued and flooding world markets with artificially cheap goods, China pursues a predatory trade policy.

Lulled into complacency and excess by ample supplies of artificially cheap financing, Irish banks went on a lending binge.

This work has to go on in an open and transparent manner, without artificially imposed deadlines for decision making.

We lived the better part of the subsequent decade with a misguided sense of extended prosperity and inflated a financial bubble.

Genetic engineering rests on the manipulation of DNA molecules (whether real or artificially constructed) in order to reprogram foreign cells.

Periodical physical verifications were not conducted, and asset values were incorrectly recorded with data in some cases inflated by millions of dollars.

After all, managing for the short run encouraged mortgage lenders to offer artificially low teaser interest rates to lure potential homeowners.

Artificially creating a new European polity split between left and right would create new struggles and intensify old ones about redistribution.