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Charles P. Kindleberger on Economic Bubbles and US Asset Bubble of the 2000s

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Andrew Zanegin

Economic historian Charles P. Kindleberger writes in his “Manias, Panics, and Crashes”(C.P.Kindleberger, 1978 edition, page 17): “As firms and households see others making profits from speculative purchases and resales, they tend to follow. When the number of firms and households … Continue reading →

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The Phenomenon of Price Threshold in US Housing Bubble of the 2000s

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Andrew Zanegin

So there was a drastic change in the speculation volume ratio to all sales of homes (a threshold) in the course of US housing bubble of the 2000s (see post  “Critical Mass of Speculation Triggers Asset bubbles”). I have hypothesized that crossing … Continue reading →

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One Way to Define If There Is a Housing Bubble

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Andrew Zanegin

In this post I focus on the assumption of a critical point or a threshold on the way to a housing bubble, made before. I believe that at some point the critical mass (volume) of flipping operations emerges, producing explosion-type … Continue reading →

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Can We Discern the Naissance of a New Housing Bubble?

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Andrew Zanegin

In my post  “Asset  Bubble Microeconomics: a Peculiar Demand and Supply Diagram” I’ve argued that in a housing bubble the demand curve is upward sloping, positioning itself below the supply curve at the boom phase and shifting to the position above … Continue reading →

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