Open Thread

January 10th, 2009 11:03 AM

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?

Read the whole thing and share your thoughts.