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What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. There has been only one widely accepted and durable “model of asset price determination” for stock, bonds, and the like. Yet neither has collapsed. The man has a point, but only up to a point.

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

Other countries sometimes have actual fiscal crises, when investors around the world (not to mention most locals) lose confidence in their government bonds and/or their currency. The then-sainted Alan Greenspan had given them ample cover, by expressing concerns that surpluses might eventually kill the bond market.