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

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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Critical Mass of Speculation Triggers Asset Bubbles

The author of the article “Not fully inflated” (“The Economist”, December 7, 2013) accepts so easily the definition of an asset bubble as “an increase in the price of an asset of more than two standard deviations above the trend, taking … Continue reading

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One Way to Define If There Is a Housing Bubble

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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