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His research during and after the war mainly involved investigating surface tension in soap bubbles, rather than further work into the properties of matter at low temperatures.

Big speculative bubbles are rare events.

Eli Pariser Beware online filter bubbles

Of course, farmland is much less important than other speculative assets.

An international elite of Olympic officials arose, living in a self contained bubble of wealth and privilege.

Expectations become self fulfilling, oil prices rise, a speculative bubble is born.

They video taped a pair of dolphins swimming through a section of water filled with hundreds of thousands of air bubbles.

Asset bubbles are hard to identify with certainty.

Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play.

This dynamic is similar to that of an asset bubble, albeit faster.

The steam bubbles form a geyser pump, causing an upward flow.

A sixth option especially where a country has carried out partially sterilized intervention to prevent excessive currency appreciation is to reduce the risk of credit and asset bubbles by imposing prudential supervision of the financial system.

Two bubbles property and credit against which American families borrowed freely, have long since burst.

Assets bubbles will not disappear, but they will be less likely to be turbocharged by leverage.

When there is no big bubble, there is no need to worry about a big crisis.

And these countries QE has also fueled asset bubbles in the world economy.

Call it Homophily, call it the Filter bubble, it is a prevalent phenomenon everywhere we turn.

Blaming China merely impedes the heavy lifting that must be done at home namely, boosting saving by cutting budget deficits and encouraging households to save income rather than rely on asset bubbles.

Second, controlling asset bubbles requires control not only of the money supply, but also of the availability of credit.

But the recent speculative bubbles have in effect boosted the percentage of land value in home value. Although much of this was temporary, we now tend to think of homes as land rather than structures.

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

Cheap money with limited investment outlets now risks fueling property bubbles and industrial overcapacity.

Implicit in this definition is a suggestion about why it is so difficult for smart money to profit by betting against bubbles the psychological contagion promotes a mindset that justifies the price increases, so that participation in the bubble might be called almost rational.

In many countries, governments in 2009 responded to the collapse of housing bubbles by instituting policies aimed at supporting these speculative markets.

Fifth, persistent QE can lead to asset bubbles both where it is implemented and in countries where it spills over.

Instead, central bankers focused single mindedly on price stability, though the costs of somewhat higher inflation would have been miniscule compared to the havoc wrought by the financial excesses that they allowed, if not encouraged.

For developing countries, economic policy and bank regulation should be used together to stop inflation and asset bubbles.

But speculative bubbles are not so easily ended indeed, they may deflate somewhat, as the story changes, and then reflate.

Since 2000, we have seen the most dramatic evidence ever of speculative bubbles in markets for owner occupied homes.

There is now a serious risk of a systemic meltdown in US financial markets as huge credit and asset bubbles collapse.

It may pile up in bank reserves or savings accounts, or it may produce asset bubbles.

On one hand, policy must fuel asset bubbles to keep the economy growing.

The state must also preserve continuity in the market economy when the speculative bubble that has funded its transformation bursts.

From asset bubbles and a dysfunctional financial system to currency suppression and monetary policy blunders, Japan has been in many respects the laboratory of our future.

The root of the crisis remains the fall in purchasing power on the part of the middle and lower classes, and the collapse of speculative bubbles created by the wealthy classes greed for more.

When helium II boils, due to its high thermal conductivity it does not bubble but rather evaporates directly from its surface.

True, easy money did help to restore equity prices, but it might also have created new asset bubbles.

But it is inducing massive capital flows to emerging markets, where they are generating asset price bubbles.

First and foremost, financial authorities must accept responsibility for preventing asset bubbles from growing too big.

Government stabilization of the banking system can either be international, provoking complaints by outraged taxpayers about subsidizing others, or national, but only at the cost of greatly extended regulation of capital movements.

The Fed and the Bank of England remain less likely to be concerned about the emergence of new kinds of asset bubbles in stock markets or commodities.

CAMBRIDGE Long term interest rates are now unsustainably low, implying bubbles in the prices of bonds and other securities.

Given the risk of re inflating asset bubbles, no one should expect a dramatic easing of credit of the type that followed the 2008 meltdown.