Last week – before we set about proving that Australian housing was a bubble waiting to blow up – we began making the case that the resource boom might be facing an unquestioned assumption behind its enduring boom: that China won’t blow up. But what if it does?
April 14th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 8 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "bust"
The Fight Between Greed and Fear, Boom and Bust, Expansion and Contraction
This is a fight that goes on all the time. But it is usually kind of a ‘cold war.’ Years go by without much activity. Stocks meander. A few companies go bust. A few boom.
January 12th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Jim Grant Declares Boom is Nigh
What is remarkable about the Grant conversion is that his vision gives off so little heat and light. His WSJ article shillyshallies around; rehearses the history of previous recessions…
September 28th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
From Bubble Watch to Bust Watch
Any global bailout plan is bound to be a bad one. Because what the world really needs is a correction. And no country wants one. Instead, each nation does its best to push the correction onto its neighbors…
January 23rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
The Lint Age
Both patricians and plebes are for bailouts. Both business and labor back stimulus programs. The taxpayers and the politicians who rule them are of one mind. Liberal, conservative, rich, poor, Republican, Democrat all speak with a single voice: ‘Screw the next generation!” The golden age is over, in other words. In the space of 40 years it passed from gold, to silver, to paper…and is now somewhere between plastic and navel lint…
January 19th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
