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speculative bubble (複数形 speculative bubbles)

1. (idiomatic, business, finance) A situation in which the market price of investment instruments or other properties has risen to a point which exceeds reasonable valuation and is not sustainable.
   • 1896 August 27, "Big Pile of Bonds," The Morning Record (Connecticut USA), p. 7 (retrieved 7 Oct 2013):

     A New York dispatch to the Chicago Evening Post says: "They tell a story down the street, connecting Charles T. Yerkes, the Chicago street car magnate, in a curiously indirect, yet vital way with the explosion of the Moore Brothers' speculative bubble in Diamond Match and New York Biscuit."

   • 1936 July 16, Richard L. Gridley, "Federal Banking Authorities Begin to Apply Brakes In Effort To Check Speculative Boom," The Pittsburgh Press, p. 21 (retrieved 7 Oct 2013):

     When the rise in the market became excited a year ago, higher market regulations were decreed and banks were virtually prohibited from allowing their deposits to be drawn into the speculative bubble.

   • 2005 June 25, Kevin G. Hall, "Loan regulators discount fears of housing bubble," Seattle Times (retrieved 7 Oct 2013):

     Top officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), which regulates national banks, yesterday dismissed fears that rising home prices nationwide reflect a speculative bubble ready to burst.

使用する際の注意点

• Earlier uses of the term bubble to describe financial speculation can also be found, as in:

• circa 1820, Washington Irving, "The Great Mississippi Bubble" in The Crayon Papers:

Every one now talks in thousands; nothing is heard but gigantic operations in trade. . . . speculation rises on speculation; bubble rises on bubble.

同意語

• economic bubble, financial bubble, investment bubble, market bubble, price bubble, speculative boom

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• speculative bubble at OneLook Dictionary Search