Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Can our economy grow without a bubble?

In the ’90s it was technology stocks. In the ’00s it was commodities and real estate. [...]Any honest assessment of the last two economic recoveries indicates that speculative hyper-inflation of an asset class or classes was crucial to both as well as pivotal to improvement in the labor markets. [...] Can our economy grow anymore without an asset bubble?

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