One Man’s Opinion: The Trouble With Asset Bubbles: If You Stop Pumping, They Pop

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By Charles Hugh Smith The trouble with inflating asset bubbles is that you have to keep inflating them or they pop. Unfortunately for the bubble-blowing central banks, asset bubbles are a double-bind: you cannot inflate assets forever. At some unpredictable point, the risk and moral hazard that are part and parcel of all asset bubbles trigger an avalanche of selling …